My work explores how maps, a resource that is used for informational data, can be imbued with a sense of human experience and personal narrative. By cutting up and rearranging U.S road maps, I create a new landscape. Within this unexplored territory, I combine seemingly disparate elements such as precise architectural lines, figurative drawing, loose gestural marks, color blocks, and text. My materials - acrylic, ink, gouache, graphite , colored pencil and resin - allow me to collage, rearrange, draw, paint over, drip, and pour. This process is a constant negotiation between the planned and the instinctual, both in my art making practice and stylistically within each piece. As I move between the premeditated and unintended, I simultaneously grapple with and embrace the role that intuition and uncertainty play in reaching one’s goal. Eventually an imagined landscape emerges; it suggests a narrative, yet borders on abstraction. The map is only a starting point, as it can only suggest the possibilities that exist in the actual journey.