Statement
Color Chorus, 2022. Installation in progress.
Like the abstract impressionist painters from the 1940’s I am interested in asking questions about our relationships with our social spheres and the responsibilities to our environment. Early impressionist painters and sculptors believed that abstraction in portraits and disruption of patterns could encourage mental involvement and imagination to help answer these questions. I am interested in the visual conversations this creates and in the way that abstraction and distortions can be employed to express the psychological states we experience when asking these questions.
Weaving requires the orderly movement of multiple methodical systems to transform yarn from warps and wefts into a stable structure. Painting directly onto the warp and weft yarns before the weaving starts, is how I introduce another layer of interaction and open a space for chance to weave its way into the mechanical. Layered into each piece is a network of rhythmic geometry, and the subjects of my paintings impacted by the ripples of feathering colors in motion embedded by the movement of the yarns. The disruption, beauty and layering created by this method are how I explore the questions that I am asking about relationships and my place in the world.