For several years, I’ve investigated issues related to shelter and safety and how we protect ourselves as we navigate our world.  More recently, the walls, veils, and nests that were so important to me in previous projects have given way to loose interpretations of quilts.  These started as large, quilt-like acrylic and fabric paintings on canvas.  While I continue to make these, they require a lot of space; I crawl around on the floor, working in the round, piecing and painting, until the work comes together.

In response to my making these “quilts,” new paintings on canvas or panel have arisen that are visually more about color and rhythm than with the conceptual origins of past work.  They have even begun to hint at a sort of graphic narrative, but in a non-objective, non-specific way.  They are explorations in how I might take the shapes and colors, and patterns and rhythms that I love, as well as some of the qualities of the fabrics and other materials to which I’ve always been attracted and that continually inform my work, and merge them with aspects of traditional tropes to conjure the sensation of a story while actually not telling one at all.