My imagery has almost always referenced nature and its structures. I have a vocabulary of forms which depict objects that typically float and drift through nature– leaf, petal, seed. My hope is to create atmospheric worlds that use these natural shapes to direct the viewer’s eye through each work. For me, they also reference movement through life.

During the early pandemic shutdown, I was separated from my studio and press. I looked at the work I was creating just before, and decided some cutouts were in order. These holes came to represent the absent and the deeper. I finished the work with a backed up layer of “the blackest, the mattest paint in the known universe”- Black 3.0. It seemed appropriate, a new level to move through.