This is a series of vignettes of places in San Francisco. I think one of the most beautiful things in a city is the interplay between the urban geometry and the soft, organic elements of nature. In these tiny paintings, on display at Studio Gallery in the winter of 2023, I’ve combined the rigid lines and angles of architectural objects (like buildings and stairs) with the familiar, gentle contours of the world they live in. In most of them, the real world structure has an imaged world around it, as if the scenes we look at are just small dioramas in a bigger art we’re not normally privy too. I wanted the viewer to contemplate this interplay between nature and human made environments in the context of a familiar setting.