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Chance and Order. Peace and Chaos. Unintentional and Intentional. ​I have a deck of cards, and I make a list of creative tasks and assign one to each card. Such as, "Ace- Write a Word" or "Joker- Expressive Brush Stroke" or "4- Draw a Line." I pull a card, and I do what the list tells me to do when I draw that card. I do not question, and I just do. I cannot make the action without the random draw of the card. I have no idea what the next card will be that I pick. I have no idea what the painting will look like in the end. I do not work on the painting anymore after I draw the very last card of the deck. I leave each painting to the chance of my own choices.
​Unintentional Anxiety with Calm Intentions. 2020.
​I tend to feel, first. And then, think. But what if you only think what you first feel. And what if what you are feeling is not actually as it is. What if you took away all intellect and indifference and only had intuition and emotion? No reason. No restrictions. No control. What if you strictly focused on what you are feeling right now? Then strip away everything that separates emotion from the rest. And then you see that all is made of what you feel and think simultaneously. These two things cannot succeed without the balance of the other. Yin and Yang is all.  ​Although, I am more Yin most often.
​A Female Intuition. 2019.
The work directly above is from a solo exhibition that was displayed in my small Pennsylvania hometown. This show was made to explore connections between the global notion of home, the often fast-paced life of Modern society, and the human understanding or misunderstanding of the totality of what our home truly is in that life. The work was developed based on connective imagery and symbols, a cohesive color palette, and compositional decisions that were developed from hometown photographs and creative intuition. These components played the vital role in analyzing the concept of “home.” Zooming in from the unknown universe to the gallery wall in front of you, from the physical house form and into our individual minds, this show communicated the vibrancy of our universal connection to this idea. Here is a decisive stylistic combination of the art movements Primitivism and Minimalism, utilizing simplified shape, line, color, and space to speak to a wider audience. These artistic choices produce conceptual and aesthetic coexistences between each piece in this exhibition made with the unifying sole purpose of encouraging the viewer to question, “What is Home?” and “Where am I within it?”
What We Call Home. 2018.
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