My current body of work, which includes painting, collage and installation developed through a process of playful experimentation and is influenced by the persistent growth of flora and the relationship it has to architecture and other plant species. Tress grow out of derelict buildings, Spanish moss, ferns and palmettos live in live oaks and kudzu strangles trees, buildings and anything else in its path. These phenomena have inspired abstract work that reference sites where a takeover is slowly taking place. The shapes grow and mutate, claiming the space.
The collaged felt shapes, which become installation pieces, come from my paintings and drawings. I trace shapes in order to isolate them and create a distance between the painting and shape. I transfer the forms to felt through drawing, then cut out the shapes and stain them with fluid acrylic paint. Once installed, they become a large-scale collage that is a physical representation of a takeover of space, whereas the paintings and small collages are a pictorial representation of that phenomenon.
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