Much of my work explores Romantic ideas of nature, from a standpoint that is
equally reverent and critical. The work is characterized by a testing of formats,
perspectives, framing devices, narrative expectations, as well as the mixture
of new and historical techniques and materials.
Turning to landscapes of glaciers and icebergs, my most recent paintings depict
multifaceted crystalline formations on panels and three-dimensional cubes. Each
composition is built through the incremental accumulation of small geometric
shapes of transparent color, which add up to spatial trajectories and recessions,
opening up windows into the white gesso. For me, the incremental and unpredictable
process of constructing these compositions becomes a metaphor for organically
growing forms in nature, where erratic, unprecedented forms emerge from finite
and predictable elements.