I have a routine when I enter the studio - charge my phone, select a podcast, push play and sit down to paint. I love the sound of a radio story, whether it’s the witty Ira Glass on This American Life, the soothing Krista Tippett interviewing a brilliant thinker, the perfectly pitched Terry Gross talking about the latest on Fresh Air or the contemplative Tyler Green on The Modern Art Notes Podcast. It is in the context of rich thought and interesting conversation, that I sink into a type of silence and enter my paintings. They serve as a meditation. As marks are made, I create new and dynamic spaces, traveling across the surface of the paper like it is a landscape that I traverse with my teachers, the voices of radio.