Residency 3
January 2021

Since visual distancing from familiar landscape along the Hudson River that had been part of a daily routine before the pandemic disruption, current work has turned inward to explore space rather than place as it occurs in memory, imagination, and emotion. In order to make the subconscious conscious, the work uses tache, abstraction, and frottage rather than representation to feel the forces of nature observed out the narrow studio window and while on long, isolated walks away from people. Daily exercises embrace intuition, creating conscious forms from random lines, providing a way to wrestle physical energy away from an uncertain loop of emotional stagnation and personal confinement.