Impressions

My interest in mathematics and past work in research science inform my exploration of how we perceive and interpret visual information. Detecting patterns enables me to navigate space and recognize what populates my world. Patterns define infrastructure and interconnection, and reveal the fundamental principles of matter. They help us analyze the past, and anticipate the future. They offer insights into the systems within us, and those within which we exist.

In my “Impressions” series, I embed text fragments with historical and cultural references into layered compositions. I select words and phrases by taking rubbings from public monuments and plaques, chosen for how they’ve shaped my experience – issues like land, water, electricity, nonviolence as a political practice, and civic institutions such as the public library and the post office. For me, these patterns and words connect to nature, place, time, and ultimately, history.

My work plays with shifting forms and optical effects, inviting viewers to slow down and linger with ambiguity and curiosity. Ideally, they may discover something unexpected, just as I do through the creative process.

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