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A subject I explore in my paintings is baseball, centering the players, their poses, and possibilities of composition and narrative which are analogous to a painter’s game of building tension. There is a comparison between the players’ gestures and the physical aspects of painting. And what ultimately emerges is a performative social space, a painterly questioning of intercultural exchange in America. I engage with the idea of otherness - both in terms of how I am othered, and my ignorance of the culture of baseball. I also make work that deals with material and process in painting, and I make books alongside my paintings to underline the importance of research, study, and ephemera.