I am a Kansas City based artist whose paintings have been exhibited in cities across the United States.  My work is in numerous corporate and private collections.  The abstract paintings I create are unique because the work is based on real life phenomena.  My current series is titled ‘Boundary Lines’.  The paintings draw upon state counties and Bureau of Land Management land designations for the abstract visual language they possess.  I use the discreet shapes in maps and state atlases as a sort of scaffolding within which to explore painting.  

In the Western states the BLM uses a pixel like system to designate federal lands and each square mile of land becomes a square on the map. It is a way for authorities to order the natural world.  What interests me is that unconsciously, the BLM has created clusters of shapes that appear to indicate figures, Lego land cities, and native American designs.