I make marks. Big and little. Thick and thin. Dark and light. Smooth, bumpy, square, round, curvy, and straight marks. I draw inspiration from everyday things, turn them upside down and sideways, and build layers, using color, line, shape, and plane changes until the image feels interesting and exciting.
Recently I have been exploring the use of grids, inspired by grid imagery I see all around me – street grates, griddles, screens, lattices, graphs – and by imagery of woven surfaces, knits, and warps and wefts I remember from my childhood as my father was in the textile industry. I remember watching giant knitting machines weaving long tubes of interlocking grids that would be cut and reassembled into sweaters. In this series, my grids produce structures with not quite parallel lines, lattices that stop and start, checkerboards that play with circles and loops, and grates through which one can view the layers below. The grid has joined the circle, loop, and other gestural forms in my world of mark making.
