My paintings and drawings are process-oriented, using intuition to guide my decision making, without establishing a sense of the what the finished work will look like, as it would withhold the satisfaction of creating a work previously unknown to me.

 

The work is developed through several drafts, beginning as sketches on paper. I respond to the image and alter it intuitively, until it bears no resemblance to the original drawing. My abstract works not only serve as an exercise to study color and form, but as a means of integrating a multitude of artistic mediums such as drawing, printmaking, tapestry and collage, all of which have a significant influence on my paintings. Emulating these different techniques with paint on canvas allows for my work to take on a chameleon-like quality. By filtering each step through various modes of creation, the ending product results as a multimedia work, that the viewer must closely inspect to see is only made of paint. 

 

The concept of entropy is a common thread in my approach, as I devise a skeletal composition based on a system of symmetrical patterns and shapes that are then disrupted and fragmented over time. The system of conventions that I set up for every piece are disordered into chaos by means of tessellation, subtraction, distortion, repetition, etc. By slowly eroding the preliminary image through a variety of modulations, the initial practicality of the image is displaced until it bears no resemblance.