About the works on paper

In these recent cut-paper collages I draw with a nibbed pen and fluid ink, prompted by the color and suggestive text printed on paint samples. Echoing the inevitable repetition in a day, I use line to describe fractured structures. Often I start a drawing with simple, parallel lines which deviate from the parent form to describe appendages and offshoots. As I hand-cut and reconstruct the drawings, distance is achieved, permitting me to reinvent a model of my experience that is overshadowed by the more common experience of color, material and form.

I am fascinated with western culture's tendency to label experience. I attempt to find a psychological match for sensation while engaging in the broader dialogue with abstraction and the decorative impulse. Sound bites such as “modesty peach” and “june vision” are built into stringy, jagged wholes. This project allows me to suppress the personal while gaining access to a large range of associative, imagined forms and their tenuous boundaries.