Grid‐based abstraction is a theme common to much of my work as I am viscerally attracted to the intersection of vertical and horizontal, square, line, pattern. This personal compulsion manifests itself in the satisfaction elicited from viewing a window pane pattern on a button‐up shirt or admiring the all‐over repetition of squares on a piece of graph paper, for example. So I generally begin within that framework and allow each piece to develop individually. While every piece is conceived with a visual idea, its final realization inevitably evolves throughout the process of creating, both from reactions to what works or does not, as well as from responses to happenstance and accident.
I enjoy painting with wax, its corporeal quality lending well to layering, surface, and reduction. There is an inherent interplay between the works as pictures (plane) and sculpture (object).