My paintings over the past decade have grown out of an immersion in the art, culture and religious traditions of India. Through depictions of figures in both sacred and secular spaces, some portrayed as I found them and others assembled through an accumulation of observed detail, memory, and invention, I have recorded others’ silent absorption in both time-bound and timeless activities. Moments of passage and pause in the epiphanies and sorrows of everyday life are evoked through gestures that often transcend their particularity. In my most recent series the subject is my own participation in the invisible company of those who may have passed into and through these places over time. The places I am drawn to are thick with evidence of use and utility, layers of color, graffiti, torn fragments of notices and mute objects are silent witnesses of our lives lived, remembered and anticipated. India has welcomed and enveloped me into a diverse and generous geography and history that has given me the opportunity to experience as well as surrender a heightened sense of self.