As a scavenger, collector and painter, my work reimagines art historical traditions located in the afterlife of thrift store novelties, vernacular photography, and home movies. Painted into Baroque-inspired narratives, these quotidian vestiges of our material culture function as a domestic counterpart to the masculine heroism of historical painting traditions, while reconciling the implicit codification of gender, power, and class found in our cultural artifacts and personal possessions. Woven into new fantastical mythologies viewers are invited to consider memory and meaning in the circulation of objects and the traces of things left behind. Part archive, part fiction, they negotiate competing narratives while offering small vignettes through which to reflect on the fictional potential of the everyday.