My work reflects my personal observations of natural and human built environments where I explore themes of transformation, repetition, continuity, and randomness through abstraction. I make oil paintings and mixed media drawings on canvas, panel and on paper, and integrate my saved paint palettes and paint rags on textiles through a variety of processes such as embroidery, rughooking, collage, block printing and sculptures.
I am inspired by the ever-changing formations of the waters, the sky, the land as well as the architectural details that I come across in my habitat and travels. I randomly reference these structural views as line work, gestural washes, paint residues, angles, shapes, patterns and fragments by making loose tracings based on the photographs I take. Tracing makes it possible for me to bring current interpretations to the dissipating past and fickle memories. In the compositions, new meanings emerge intuitively, through rotating, repeating, and maneuvering, via the mediums of oil paint, watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, archival markers and pens. Creating variations of the past and memories this way, allows me to further explore limitless new territories, textures and forms.
