Through my painting practice I am exploring the personal and historical archives of abstraction as it extends beyond the Western canon’s narrow description. Within this context, this body of work is focusing on the edges of abstraction as it interacts with the representational, providing context and influencing the other. The line between the tangible and intangible is hardly stark or well defined, and consequently endlessly generative. The possibilities of abstraction are as vast and varied as culture, lived experience, and perception itself; actively calling to our collective desire to understand and be understood.

This show focuses on elements of representation as they interact with abstract concepts, articulating the facets of the relationships between the tangible and the intangible. This body of work challenges the established idea that abstraction exists outside of the representational realm and vice versa. Considering the complexity of experience, perspective, and being, I posit that the attempt to distill abstraction from representation is impossible, and furthermore relies heavily on the other for context and meaning.