In nature there are extreme contrasts between depths, spaces, and surfaces: water and coast, forest and clearing, solid and airy, agitation and quiet. In the ever-present contest between opposing forces, both pushing for dominance, does one ever win? In nature, I find situations where chaos and tranquility meet, interact, and thrive. Empty space carries as much weight as dense, frenzied, layered space. There is a tension and dialogue between the open, breathing, fluid spaces, and the claustrophobic, moving, chaotic spaces of the nautral world.

I want to respresent these dualities, tensions, and dialogues between organic entities with paint. The paint references natural forms, oscillating between what might be recognizable or real space, and nonsensical alien space. The lines and spaces are alive and organic--multiplying, growing, and spreading. Paint is woven with emptiness, thick with thin, positive with negative, linear with blended, bright with dull; the contrasting elements perform a tangled dance.