"New Windows"
I’m a collector of colors and shapes, shadows, and patterns. I assemble them and weave them together, move them around, search for the places they resonate. I'm fascinated by pattern pieces. The kind you use to sew a shirt or pants, which is something my mother and grandmother both did. When you cut out the shape of a sleeve, it isn’t shaped like an arm. It has flat sides and gentle curves. But there’s a sense that it mimics the body, like a geometric shorthand. My paintings are a kind of shorthand too. Every painting begins with a collection of shapes, colors, patterns, ideas about a place, point in time, or problem. But I let them depart from that point. Sometimes I begin with collaged material, magazine scraps or pieces of old paintings. These become outlines. Every surface takes shape organically and sometimes comes to reference a landscape or physical space. At the same time, their ambiguity is important to me, because it keeps them in motion. I want the viewer to find their own space within the picture plane.