In the works seen in Ashtray and Proximities, I'm transfixed with color. How it can be calm and play nice or be punchy and assertive, activating your eyes like LED signage. Using yarn rather than paint, color becomes form, with depth and surface mutations that spill the edges. However these pieces land, I'm hoping to subvert and sidestep expectations. The more they blur boundaries between painting, drawing, collage and sculpture the better I feel. Like a road trip with no destination, these works are taking me new places as I grapple with color and materials in new ways. I humbly amuse myself while I make quick decisions in the push-pull of the moment until it feels just right. My goal is always to make things l've never seen before.

This is a live performance is the name of a small edition artist book I made at Animales de Lorca letterpress studio in Valencia, Spain, fall 2024. It's about noticinq, about everything, and the connective-ness of existence. It's one part of an ongoing body of works using this phrase.

Bite Down was a one person exhibition at Rochester Art Center, It was made during Covid when every day I walked along the wooded Mississippi River where there is abundant flooding and decay each year. Each walk was an encounter with monumentality. The gigantic fallen and tangled trees evoked a strong sense of deep time, strength, fragility and catastrophic unknowns which found their way into this work.