Fabula (meaning "story" or "fable" in Latin) is the title of an ongoing body of small watercolors, and larger oil paintings that comment on the very nature of contemporary narratives that are built upon "conditional, ephemeral, and contextually dependent structures" (James Elkins, How the Visual is Studied). Each piece is built from a multiplicity of literary and art historical sources juxtaposed within a single frame. Often, an excerpt from an historical portrait provides the base upon which other images are placed. Layering details from 14^{th Century} frescos, 18^th & 19^{th Century} European architecture, as well as personal images, these works are constructed from memories, fragment upon fragment.00