At a time when U.S. history is being actively revised or removed from view, I make oil paintings using the language of 19th-century American painting to better see.

My work comes out of years spent in American Civil War reenactments, where history is negotiated and performed. I embodied artist-correspondents, like Winslow Homer, at these battles. That experience still shapes how I paint now, not as a record of history, but as a way it continues to be staged and seen.

I return to images that have helped define the country—monuments, uniforms, saddles—and paint them again as I see them now.