With this series I’m exploring the calming powers of order, using familiar subjects, 90 degree angles, repetition, and a limited color palette. Subjects like motels, swimming pools, windows, doors, stylized greenery and simple patterns build environments that are peaceful yet empty. The emptiness gives a feeling of walking into an uninhabited space constructed for comfort and safety just before it is occupied. The feeling isn’t an appreciation for what’s there but what could be once one moves in. It is part architectural rendering and part oil painting. The architectural rendering isn’t intended to show accurate perspectives and light sources, but rather to mix and distort these things. The paint is textured and layered to give a look of permanence while at the same time an ephemeral feeling knowing that as a space for people it won’t keep its order for long. These are imagined spaces shown just before the need for maintenance and cleaning.