BLUE BOOK UNKNOWNS

Paintings created after an immersive study of the UFO phenomenon. What started as a creative diversion quickly became an obsession.

From 1952 until 1968, the United States Military commissioned a study of the UFO phenomena code named "Operation Blue Book." Blue Book compiled and analyzed thousands of UFO sightings but concluded that they were not a threat to national security, and that no evidence indicated they represented technology beyond that of mankind. Yet to this day, a quarter of the cases remain explained and are quite similar to sightings that continue to the present day.

The paintings take their titles from cases in the study, named for ordinary places all over North America where ordinary people encountered extraordinary things.