For the past few years many of my paintings have been about the built environment and its impact on the landscape. While some of my work chronicles an unspoiled Maine coast, the bulk of it incorporates the roadways, buildings, wires, and train tracks that surround me in every day life. These statements of time, place and commerce will be some of our civilization’s most enduring records. It's easy to dismiss these places on asthetic grounds, but if we do that we distance ourselves emotionally from the physical world we live in, as opposed to the one we might wish we lived in. I would rather embrace it all and think about the visual and environmental legacy of these places. The built elements of our landscape may not be beautiful in the usual sense, but they add excitement, nostalgia, rhythm and geometry to the scenery and tell stories we need to hear.