This body of work is a love letter to Portland. Developers are rapidly buying up small homes, businesses and vacant lots and turning them into monolithic condos with pricetags to match and the sad irony is this machine of development, gentrification and economic boom erases what attracted people to Portland in the first place. While economic health is valuable for a city to survive, capitalism and its relationship with community is fraught with conflicts and conundrums. I do not know the answers. I paint, I observe and I document and I hope to share the small things I love about this city.
