06/09/2026
"I just looked up Pine Grove on a map. It's about 40 miles from where I am in Berks County. I've never been to Pine Grove, I've never been to this house, but it feels familiar. The details - the asbestos shingles, the gravel, the quiet pace of life - remind me of all these memories of my youth. I feel like I grew up in this house, even though it looks nothing like the house I grew up in."
I know being an artist can be romanticized, and I don't want to ruin the magic for anyone, but making paintings is my job. I don't have a deep emotional connection to every painting I make, but sometimes - sometimes - I get to experience the feeling I see viewers get when they look at my paintings for the first time.
Every so often, I look at one of my finished paintings and I catch a feeling, too.
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