My work is an exploration of a specific kind of beauty existing at the intersection of the natural and the artificial. Most of us expect to have moments of awe or solace in the historically “beautiful” scenes or subjects of a landscape painting, but perhaps the expectation that a beautiful sunset will inspire awe prevents us from experiencing it in other places. Can a shadow cast by a trash can take your breath away? Is the pattern of an aluminum fence lovely? Capitalism and consumer culture create much of the world around us— for many of us, more so than the natural world—and slowing down to take in the collision of those two worlds can provide a new way of experiencing, or expecting to experience, beauty.