In this world, we often intercept time and space and become subconscious observers of a reality far from one that we live. Perhaps it's through a moment in a song, a particular way light falls onto someone's hair, or a line from a book, we seem to slip into a trance and see beyond what's here. It's in those moments that the fantastic, the otherworldly come to life for us. In my oil painting collection, Aleora, I seek the people and beasts that exist only when that veil to their world becomes so thin that I can enter into their ethereal stories and capture them, for a brief, enchanting, and picturesque moment in hopes that I can deliver it to your doorstep for you to treasure.