My paintings aim to portray a body which speaks to the viewer of their own condition. The bodies are dissipated and abstracted within architectural space and it is a resulting tension between the body and the shallow pictorial space that provokes this reflection. The paintings address a sense of claustrophobia in the urban environment: the way the body is constantly governed by the city at different scales. The use of perspective and the grid describe this imposition of a geometrical scheme on reality. The ambiguity of the space however, allows the spatial restriction of the human form to be read as a metaphor for emotion- al and cultral confinement, simultaneously speaking of the physical and non- physical spatial constraints imposed on the body by contemporary life.