I explore and seek to understand how childhood experiences of “image seeing” and “image making” are still so prevalent for me today. As a child I looked into the texture and patterns of ceilings, objects, clouds and nature, and found images of faces, animals, etc. In high school art, I began thinking through the ideas of our culture, the rate in which we live our lives and how much of life we do not get to see and understand because of the pace at which we live our lives. To put these thoughts into imagery, I began looking closely into the details of nature to find my imagery.

My first piece into this exploration was taken from a 1/2”x1/2" section of a dried-up corn husk that I blew-up to create an abstract pastel drawing. This piece began an obsession with going into the details of nature and life to find abstract imagery that I would photograph, draw and paint. While at university, my Life Drawing professor had us use oil sticks to draw the human figure and from there we were to "mess-up" our drawings. Immediately my childhood memories of pulling imagery from the abstracted textures of ceilings and nature came rushing back. It was this moment that I consciously surrendered to the way I see and derive imagery. I began to put context to what and why I see and how I approach image making, I began to study Chaos Theory and Order in Chaos. I began studying more art of Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and Marcel Duchamp and I began to find my own imagery with this new submission.

My current body of work, "Quilt Paintings," are an explosion of ideas and childhood influences of seeing patchwork quilting from my grandmothers. Patchwork quilting is an art form of taking random and often discarded sections of unusable clothing to create new beautiful pieces...giving a new life and use to the discarded. These random patchworks of fabric are sewn together with an underlay of math and geometry, giving order to the chaos of random patchwork. My "Quilt Paintings" are built on these same ideas. I am drawn to light-based imagery that I find in the details of everyday life. I photograph these random findings as much and as quickly as I can. Then, I patch these repetitive images together like quilts, creating new beautiful color-field "Paintings."