Strange that this indistinguishable thing needs clarity. My abstract works are a part of something larger. They present questions around what exists inside of us. My abstract works are the enlarged images of the microscopic happenings of the internal landscape. Where one sees faces and traces of objects, I see the inner workings of our existence at a biological and molecular level. Respiratory processes, inherited DNA, receptors and signals communicating the release of hormones when we’re in love or experience joy. These abstracts are the precursor to the figurative, they are cells working toward unity and at the same time an aerial view of humanity. The mark making within my abstract paintings convey energy, movement, rest, and all varieties of emotions that take refuge within us.
This series titled “Record” considers our internal landscape as a tabulation of our history. A record is sometimes a memory, a catalog, or a rotating device that plays back sound. Records are found in the layers of our favorite trees and in the layers we possess as human beings. Beneath our flesh and in our hearts lies the history of our breath, choices, and the plethora of things we’ve inherited from our ancestors. What does your record reveal to you? What sound does it make? What record will you leave behind?
_2017-02-21-22-43-30.jpg "New Orleans art Slave Making A Quilt by artist Queen Hope Parker: Charcoal, pastel, and watercolor")
