Architectural spaces coerce behavior, imposing rules, order, and the attendant ideology of society. I make paintings of familiar places - antiquated office buildings, hunting lodges, and once-frequented bars. They are places that chronicle shifts of attitude; environments freed from previous emotion and assigned new values and expectations. The paintings illustrate this tension of redefinition. I focus on emotion through color, contrasting painting techniques and use of the figure. I do not intend irony in the pieces, but rather an examination what it means to be living physically within the conflict of nostalgic emotion and in a context of perpetual redefinition.