Reception Photos

NOVEMBER 11  -    DECEMBER 19TH ,  2006
Systems, patterns, and frameworks guide the making of my work. In each piece, a mathematical structure suggests that a larger system is at hand, dictating the formation of the image.
The most important quality in these works is a reverberation, a hum where the pieces seem to vibrate and hover away from the paper or surface. Floating handwriting, merging numbers, glowing cut paper shadows, and light-filled patterns are often elements of the systems. These dynamic materials work to make each system feel as though it's evolving, revising and expanding as we look at it.
I illustrate systems as intangible concepts that represent physical ideas. Shadow and reflection from cut-paper shapes build images where there is nothing, expressing this idea of formlessness. Optical movements within patterns are used to make the images seem weightless and afloat, neither part of the paper nor the paint. Many of the pieces use letters and numbers, their thin marks joining and overlapping, as a physical description of thought.
The system of words is a central focus in these pieces, as I often translate and rearrange messages from my family and friends. By replacing letters with shapes and colors, and punctuation with marks and lines, I make the viewer consider what words would look like if they existed in a form other than handwriting.

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