"Turtles All the Way Down" is an abstract triptych exploring ideas about emergence of complex systems from simple frameworks and contained chaos. There is an explosion of material and mark making bursting out of the center of this composition, but mostly not making it all the way to the edges, as if contained by invisible forces like a magnetic field holding in the constituent elements in a fusion reaction.

The triptych form warps what is already a three dimensional hyperplane into a set of volumetric objects with a direct relationship to the more banal third dimension of every day life. The painting presents a space within the space.