Artist Statement
I use formalism to convey human connection. My work explores the emotional impact of color and the transformative power of form and structure. After a serious brain injury, I used geometry and pattern to communicate and re-learn the world around me. Geometric abstraction became my ethos for order, connection, and communication.
My work exists in uncertainty and the continuous stress of change. My process entails layering grids, lines, and color atop a dark liminal space. Geometry is a system I use as a self-evident truth to create structure in transitional times. I draw lines to hold people together. Color is the formation of emotional, mental, and physical space; the power source of self-identity. Collectively, these elements — what I call inner physics — convey our inextricable link to one another and leverage new ways of seeing the connection between community and abstraction.
By seeking to repair myself, I found resolution bringing people of different backgrounds into one truth through my work. These are my utopian worlds. Combining disparate shapes and patterns, I express how diverse peoples can be held together. By composing a harmonious interconnected design, I offer a future continuous blueprint for coexistence.