I am interested in the way the spaces around an object define its contours, and the dialog between two and three dimensionality. I use three-dimensional studies to further my explorations of color, light, and form in two-dimensional paintings and collages. I play with folded, curved, and cut-out pieces of paper, creating shapes that interact with each other and cast shadows on the support material. Shadows are usually considered as negative space, but in my studies, they become distinctive shapes that I balances with light-based shapes, considering the two kinds of shapes on an equal basis.

As I’ve gotten deeper into my recent Interspace series, I’ve decided to incorporate drawn elements directly into my paintings. In October 2024, I started embedding black-and-white graphic images in my paintings: light bulbs, shells, vases, architectural details from my home, the plaster vessels in my garden—my personal iconography. I want to incorporate my sensibility as a drafts person as well as a painter, to bring something organic and intimate back into the painting process.