For the past 5 years, I made a series of 200 pool paintings. Pools were great metaphors for adjacent environments that are different. The outside world and the world of the pools have distorted views of each other and yet are the same world. So they were for me the gay community alongside the broader world, and allowed me to explore the relationships within that world. There are currently 17 left from the series and I am working on the next series for 2025. I grew up in Southern California and have my MFA from Rutgers University.