To contrast with my previous series of New York motifs, this series deals with the human environment of my other life, my earlier life, my childhood. The Village of Åkerö outside Leksand is where my grandmother was born and grew up, and the cultural environments here still hold the echos of my and my family's past.

My most recent series is based on a set of nudes that a friend took of me twelve years ago. The environment is "Stora Skuggan" in Stockholm, Sweden. The pictures were taken over the course of a year. This is a work in progress - neither the paintings or their titles have been finalized.

One spring day, sitting on the fire escape outside my window in Chelsea, the roof line of the building next door filled me, and I had to paint it. This series is a homage to that strange, dirty, gritty, unpredictable being that is the New York I have grown to love.