Winter Trees

Artist’s Statement: In this work I have used rectilinear shape as a point of departure. Within the confines of the form's rigidity, I look for organic rhythms to emerge. I am interested in the contradictory nature of these fluid constructions. For me, these images present a discourse of contradictions—micro and macro, time and timelessness, and the containment of things that cannot be contained.

The geometric structure tends to "rationalize" or abstract what would otherwise be mainly pictorial. In my Topographies series, I am filling an expanse of space, a kind of landscape, without perspective. Here I use the idea of topography, a description or an analysis of a structured entity showing the relations among its components, as a format in which I can keep small details and still make a space that could go on and on, like the earth itself. When we look at the world, we assemble small views into a large idea like "the ocean.” We can't see it all at once; at least not the way we know it. My views construct the whole from its parts.