In this series I interact with the material in a more painterly fashion. I think of my work as paintings, though the physical process uses collage. The process begins with collage shapes constructed from diverse forms and gestures. Sometimes the collage materials are embedded in the work and sometimes collage materials acts like a type of stencil creating forms in space that mimic the layer techniques of collage but have no collage materials in them.
I build and deconstruct the surface using strategies cutting, tearing, and adjusting. The forms and marks are recycled or changed and become distorted over time. The gestural marks are interrupted and reworked; the fragmentation of my marks carry and destroy ideas. Like an iceberg, what surfaces is only a measure of what exists beneath.
I explore the differences between strategy and chance, intention, and accident, and the rational and irrational. In this series I use additive and reductive painting processes and cut, tear, peel, collage, sand, and mask out paint layers. The surface is ambiguous, the tools and methods open the outcome of my work, creating constraints that aid in my discovery.
I interweave contradictory mark making and the creation of new pictorial places. Movements and shifting incidents on the canvas refer both to literal and suggested motion or change. The forms and marks are recycled or replaced and become distorted over time, like our understanding of abstraction has altered as paintings shift through time and culture.
