It is my mission to remind myself and others that we must continue to dream. To remind us of the radical agency we hold as artists: the ability to conjure magic with our own hands. I argue that delight is serious business. Joy, wonder, and fantasy are not distractions from meaning; they are often how we find it. Joy is a part of the inquiry, and it fuels me.

Down the ladder, through the hole, to find the gem: this is the architecture of my dream. The hole provides a space of pursuit, and with it the promise of something valuable just out of view. The ladder offers the possibility of entry, a way in, a passage between states. Often, in our pursuit for the gem, we are left with only stones. The stone is both surface and secret, a rift in the fabric of reality. And the gem? It is the reward of wandering, the crystallized feeling that something has been uncovered, even if just for a moment.

These elements come together spatially to form an invitation: to step inside a painting and to discover alternate realities, to wander, to wonder. I want to build a dream I can walk into, and invite others to do the same.