Pieces

My work invites viewers to explore imaginative micro-words at a macro level and the patterns that are within them. The patterns often consume the canvas mimicking and exploring ideas of growth, expansion and decay. These worlds float between time and space, forcing the viewer to be confronted with biomorphic shapes, textures, and colors. Each painting is in a state of flux, transiting from one state of being to another or disappearing into themselves and teeter between the grotesque and the alluring. During my painting process I use experimental and gestureal processes which create abstract amoeba shapes seen throughout the body of work. I focus first on the paint's materiality to build up these layers and rely on chance and process. This ultimately leads the path for the rest of my composition to reveal itself, or blossom. I invite viewers to find their own patterns, shapes, and images within each painting, a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. People also do this when finding images or faces in rocks and clouds. These images in my own paintings have an opportunity to create visceral reactions within my viewers. This same visceral reaction often happens when seeing fruit rotting, blooming of a fungus, or fragments of bone. These familiar yet ambiguous shapes, colors, and textures highlight spaces of multiplicity, our own position as a part of the ecosystem, and the possibility of growth that comes with/after change and decay.