My paintings have always been involved with people in urban spaces, in  particular, New York City, but in different ways. I wander the city  searching out a scene or event that captures my imagination, with the  intent to put it into my own visual language.Reflections, and motion  when caught with a camera, create transparencies and multiple layers  that become the building blocks from which many of my paintings are  constructed. The layers are woven together, creating patterns that  become ways of seeing the immediate world in front of us, the world  behind us, and multiple views in between. The reflected reality is often  visually indistinguishable from the physical reality, the two blending  together in a flattened and collage-like way. Also, as we sip our wine  and experience a certain self-satisfaction with our lives, troubles out  there in the larger world haunt us. Intrusive thoughts, of terrorist  acts, bombed-out buildings, random violence, the after-effects of war,  come into our mind and become part of our reality; they make up  fragmented narratives, dreamlike in their surface dissonance. I have  attempted to make visible the intertwining of our immediate pleasures  with our inner thoughts.