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Abstract

I think that art should be different, something to escape to when the regular world has become chaotic. I experience this escape through the process of creating grids. Simplicity is the word I would choose to describe my grid pieces; simplicity is the key to everything from the materials to the visual elements of a piece. They are hand-drawn and hand-painted images and a good deal of time went into making each and every one of them.

At the heart of it they are simple creations in an otherwise chaotic world. My grid pieces are about giving organization to my chaotic plane of art. It is about my meditative process of creating grids, structures that are infinite in size no matter how you represent them. The process of drawing grids is a meditative one that is important to my art. I want the viewers to deduce their own meanings from the grids through their own meditative interactions with them.
I produce images that are free so that each viewer can experience the piece on their own and through a meditative state of interacting with the piece, create a language of the grid in their own life.