I am working to address certain common features of cinematic imagery through painting, in order to re-contextualize and reconsider the influence of film culture over our understanding of our environments. I am examining the relationship between representational and abstracted space in both painting and cinema, borrowing the language from one medium to inform the creation of the other. Film is a reference and catalyst for analysis in my paintings -- visual information to break apart and synthesize into new worlds of my own invention. I use archetypal and transitional images in film to examine the affect film has over the way that people perceive, imagine, and remember space. My concerns with spatial experience stem in two directions, involving the way that film might interfere with memory, and the way space is built and experienced for us in cinema. In my work, I take fragments of various places as portrayed in film and combine them into single spaces, compressing the presentation of cinematic environments into the static space of a painting.