Artist Statement

Here's the working draft of my artist statement for this semester...I'm still working on the end. Let me know your thoughts.

Do individual thoughts contribute to a universal consciousness? Is there such a thing as a global brain? Can a collective mind change the corporeal world we live in?

My abstract paintings explore the relationship between thought and form. Wall-sized works on paper, constructed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes of opaque, saturated color, endeavor to depict a never-ending cycle, where thoughts vibrate into form and where form breaks down into indiscernible particles of energy. Swirling dashes and meandering configurations of small circles layered over amorphic and ambiguous shapes attempt to construct an immersive world that is both organic and synthetic, that seems both real and yet imagined. Where the sum of an endless amount of minuscule forms compulsively creates and manipulates the ineffable whole.

To contemplate the validity of any one mark amid the sea of marks calls to mind how different the course of one’s life might be with any one thought, any pivotal moment or one single person struck out of it.