Since 2001, my work has involved the concept of the connection. The work explores the way in which everything and everyone is connected. In the 1990s I began painting very moody and simple landscapes. I was obsessed with the beautiful minimalistic horizon line of the plains in the Midwest. I was having dreams of storm clouds and the Iowa plains, although I have never been to Iowa. In my work the horizon line became a thing of beauty. One can never see the same horizon line as another person regardless of how close two individuals might be. One’s perspective is completely his or her own; just as two individuals can never see the exact same horizon line. The line is so simple, and so complex