New paintings, new chapter.

Some of the pieces on my site have been with me for years. Two of them hung on my walls for almost five years. They stayed close because they carried parts of my life I was not ready to let go of. Letting them out into the world now feels like clearing space for who I am becoming, not who I was.

The first three paintings come from a collaboration with my studio mate Tansy Recycling. The tiles we used were made from recycled plastic, each one with its own pattern. I tried to let those patterns lead the direction of the work. The pieces grew out of shared energy and the quiet push and pull of two different ways of seeing.

The newest paintings are the beginning of a series about youth. Not the clean version people talk about, but the way it shifts, warps, and wears down. The attempts to hold on to brightness, the shadows that form under it, the parts that grow strange as you age out of who you were. These pieces feel like the first steps into something larger, something I am shaping in real time.

All of this work marks a transition. Old pieces finding their way into the world, collaborative pieces born from a changed environment, and new work that points forward. It feels like the start of a fuller, more honest chapter.