I compose narrative-based paintings that account for both historic and personal issues that I work out with color, texture and movement.   I collect discarded  books that serve as source material for my book paintings.  I reduce a  book  to interior and exterior (cover and pages) the functional parts. My work challenges the viewer  to rethink our relationship with books in an increasingly digitized world. In addition I look at the history of the narrative and the marks of past owners on pages along with titles and types of books such as fiction and dictionaries.