Open Ground: Shedding Skin

Progression of work

It's a daunting feeling when you know you need to evolve your work, but you don't know-how. I had been sitting with this for some time, and there are many points of view on how to get after it. Sometimes you need to work through it. Sometimes you need to think it through. Sometimes it's a mixture of both.

My sense of place and time has flattened. Meaning, boundaries between work/life/art/design/mother/friend/partner have been not only blurred but flattened into one plane of existence. With this, I crave simplicity—a reduction of the unnecessary. Peeling back the skin to see the bones and what hold us/me altogether.

Open Ground, 2020
Acrylic and India Ink on cotton paper

I am continuing to figure out the relationships between shapes, color, and lines as I explore this body of work on paper and wood panel. I feel the creative momentum and am excited to work through it all in my new studio.

Transitioning to wood panel