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Water and oil mixing on the street, the gritty sludge that now seeps into the white snow, a chalk drawing on the pavement; these are all nothing, but when noticed become something. I make art based on the little moments in my environment ranging from small sounds, changes in light, reflections and other sensual encounters. The long winter has inspired me to create a series of paintings based on the physical sensations and visual events that I experience daily. The paintings focus on the optical effects achieved when light and dark pigments are married together on a field of a single color. These works carry a specific mood in comparison to pieces I have done in other seasons; a mood darkened and dulled by the elements, but brought to life with small moments of light. Each one of my paintings is an exploration of texture and tools, as I vary using toothpicks, knives, syringes and sticks to splatter, pull, puddle and drag my paint across the surface. It is a meditative process, one that is all about the paint, my hands, my tools and the surfaces onto which I embed my images. I see beauty in working on a process where a painting is born from a single gesture or moment that can’t be repeated. My marks become maps, water, paths and veins; all traces of what I experience throughout the day.
My pigments take flight, jumping, leaping from the canvas only to rest in puddles of muddled grays and pools of mauves and blues. Paint streams across my canvas, staining it with streaks of color, fighting for small odds in the dark. Winter’s sullen mood is now dashed with light, harsh and unforgiving on my naked eyes. Silence has been interrupted.

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