Soft Poems is a series of paintings that’s an extension of work I’ve been making over the past 6 or so years. Whereas the majority of my glyph-populated works have very dense compositions and lots of visual information, I imagined Soft Poems to be almost the opposite of that. Soft Poems is meant to evoke a sense of intimate mystery. I imagine each painting as a kind of unintelligible haiku or other type of poem or writing whose meaning is hidden not only by the unintelligible glyphs, but also by having those glyphs float in translucent layers of pigmented acrylic medium. Some of the Soft Poems are readily seen close to the surface while others are revealed only after sustained viewing through layers of color.