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STATEMENT OF WORK
Growing up, the women in my family could sew anything. Clothing, quilts, costumes, things with pockets, things with feathers. I was more interested in paint than fabric but I’ve come to recognize the similarity in these practices. In my paintings, I collect colors, shapes, shadows, patterns. I assemble them and weave them together, move them around, search for the places they resonate, like quilts made of pigment. It’s a process rooted in intuition.
When you cut out the shape of a sleeve to sew a shirt, it isn’t shaped like an arm. It has flat sides and gentle curves. But there’s a sense that it mimics the body, like a geometric shorthand. For me, painting is a kind of shorthand too. A way to put a multi-dimensional moment in time into the flatness and stillness of the picture plane. What I want from painting is to distill my experience into a language that carries in it both an ode to the women of my past and a space that I hold for the transient moment I inhabit.