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paintings
Until a couple of years ago, the narrative in my work, rooted
in the practice of painting, was spun from recognizable images.
Recently, I learned to dismantle this structure and found
another more direct narrative concealed just beneath the surface
of its skin. This underlying web is composed of a loose network
of varying handmade lines, each recording the emotion of its
particular journey. These responses are continually encoded
in the physical tracks of elastic wavelength lines, loop-de-loops,
color spaces, and light.
The paintings are representative of a recent body of work
identified as pulse~patterns. Each pulse~pattern, synthesized
with waves of gesture lines and color chords, acknowledges
the natural rhythms of interconnected dynamic forces coursing
through all matter. A chromatic palette or colorway, fitted
to a given pattern, inevitably echoes seasonal shifts.
Pulse~pattern grids celebrate a formal order where the whole
is greater than the sum of the parts. This key infrastructure
must provide a generous flexibility to allow an individual
component the freedom to mark its variable place within the
overall continuum. There is no negative space or definitive
boundary to isolate inside from outside in this haptic zone
~ an elastic fabric where, ultimately, everything touches
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