Trying My Best to Stay Uncomplicated explores the tension between simplicity and the irresistible pull of complexity. Each piece begins with restraint — a clean mark, a quiet color, a promise to stay minimal — yet the deeper currents of emotion, intuition, and sensation inevitably rise through the surface. Layers emerge, colors insist on speaking, and the work shifts into the richer, more honest terrain Christine calls “the other road”: a space where nuance takes over, where nothing is merely what it seems, and where complexity becomes home.
The piece has 3 components:
The Heart That Overflows Anyway
The Almost Simple Garden
Unplanned Depth