In my paintings and works on paper I build disjointed, fractured forms with fluid paint and ink. These recent cut-paper collages are prompted by the color and suggestive text printed on paint samples. Echoing the inevitable repetition in a day, I use a nibbed pen to draw intuitively, describing unique structures. Often, I create a fragile entity suggesting imminent collapse. As I hand-cut and reconstruct the form, distance is achieved, permitting me to reinvent a model of my personal experience that is overshadowed by the more common experience of color, material and form.

I am fascinated with western culture’s tendency to label experience. I attempt to find a psychological match for sensation while engaging in the broader dialogue with abstraction and the decorative impulse. Sound bites such as “modesty peach” and “june vision” are built into stringy, jagged wholes. This project allows me to suppress the personal while gaining access to a large range of associative, imagined forms and their tenuous boundaries.