This project was created during the time of isolation and turmoil of the pandemic, fires and major political unrest; a time of deep introspection and personal grief. This became a cross pollination or closed loop, involving the thoughts and images from my conscious and unconscious mind, memory, emotion and the experience of embodiment—types of intelligences that can be undervalued—but which I sense are primary in creating our shared reality. Using provisional materials and transparency of process; employing devices of weight, time and space, I constructed paintings which refused to sit neatly on the wall. They question the form, structure and context of painting in the same way I question the hierarchy of intelligences. The visual language is both personal and suggestive of archetypal language. Because visual language has a natural kinship with the poetics of written language, I use poetry and prose in forming this system. My body often determines the scale of the work and the actions determine the forms.

the titles are taken from a collection of poetry written in tandem with the work.