These paintings developed from an interest in examining the accidental and sensory experience of memory: the heady resurfacing of sensations and images from the past. As a visual equivalent of this sensory process, I invent situations that seem both familiar and unfamiliar, that confuse distant events with the present through the juxtaposition of historical and contemporary imagery, surface abrasion, and deteriorating descriptive passages. In each painting, the concreteness of coincidental relationships disproves their improbability and suggests a space where bits and pieces, unmoored from their proper locations, create new meaning.