Going through the repetitive motions of the day.

Each day never seeming the same.

There’s always something new to see,

something new to do.

Fears to be conquered,

knowledge to be gained.

I started painting in January of 2017. Originally I came to CCA as a film student but after falling in love with painting I made the decision to add it as a second major. Painting became this creative release for me to pour out all these pent up emotions I’ve locked away for years.

One day I became obsessed with drawing and redrawing one pattern. It was a shape that I now see all the time, but it wasn’t something I had consciously decided to replicate. It was instinctual. I decided to try and use that pattern as an element for this idea I had for a painting. That idea was never fully realized because the pattern took over like a virus. So, I allowed the painting to become what it wanted to become, which is one of the greatest decision I ever made. I became a medium channeling that reality to this one. With the resulting piece becoming something far greater than I could have ever imagined.

This body of work is about exploration and discovery. I began drawing influence from the artificial and the natural. Closely examining how these larger bodies are formed and made up of many smaller shapes and color and texture. How the grain of wood helps form the tree or how pixels on a screen form an image.

As this body of work has developed it’s also become an exploration of space within and beyond the canvas. I began thinking of the first paintings in Paleolithic caves and how those paintings may have been one element to a larger experience. I’m slowly moving into installation work thinking about creating a space for the views to occupy and explore, creating a free environment to allow the viewer to be.