Ever since I was little, I was obsessed with plaid. Eventually I was able to take a weaving class and began to understand plaid on another level. There are many rules that go into weaving. I have begun to discover that some rules have to be broken to actually make a painting function correctly.  I have taken a set collection of guidelines and made a new creation. I continue to search and try to find the perfect place between structure, freedom, and control. I have branched out into using this to also create dialogue on social issues, especially within the LGTBQ+. 


Demisexual Pride Flag

Transgender Pride Flag

Ever since I was little, I was obsessed with plaid. Eventually I was able to take a weaving class and began to understand this pattern on another level. I would weave and watch it slowly come together thread by thread, becoming more defined with each pass. With this knowledge I am able to finally create concise plaid patterns, as before I had felt they always lacked something. It occurred to me that I can paint these plaids and I have been thrilled to begin experiencing them on a larger and more complex scale. There are many rules that go into weaving a plaid. It is more than just squares and intersections of color. While I am definitely a person that loves rules, I have begun to discover that some rules have to be broken to actually make a painting function correctly. I have begun to push boundaries. I try to see what rules can be broken or shifted. Overtime I am learning how to take plaid patterns and make them my own. I have taken a set collection of rules and guidelines and made a new creation. I continue to search and try to find the perfect place between structure, freedom, and control. 

When Covid-19 struck I was quite lucky. Both I and my partner kept our jobs. No one close to me became severely ill. While I was and still am grateful for that, I couldn't help but feel like everything happening was out of my control. Like I was playing a sad game and rolling the dice. I could try and point myself in the right direction, but there was only so much that I could do. With the chaotic composition series I represent this slightly directed chaos. I use dice to decide many elements of the piece. I roll a dice for color, for width, for saturation, for tone, and more. The first Chaotic Composition turned out very brown because of this. So many opposing colors led to a muddy work. As things have slowly improved I revisited the idea of this way to create. So in this work I only rolled for colors in the cool family. To me it shows that things are still an out of control mess, but little by little we get closer.

Chaotic Composition 2

Ever since I was little, I was obsessed with plaid. Eventually I was able to take a weaving class and began to understand this pattern on another level. I would weave and watch it slowly come together thread by thread, becoming more defined with each pass. With this knowledge I am able to finally create concise plaid patterns, as before I had felt they always lacked something. It occurred to me that I can paint these plaids and I have been thrilled to begin experiencing them on a larger and more complex scale. There are many rules that go into weaving a plaid. It is more than just squares and intersections of color. While I am definitely a person that loves rules, I have begun to discover that some rules have to be broken to actually make a painting function correctly. I have begun to push boundaries. I try to see what rules can be broken or shifted. Overtime I am learning how to take plaid patterns and make them my own. I have taken a set collection of rules and guidelines and made a new creation. I continue to search and try to find the perfect place between structure, freedom, and control. 

With this piece I push the idea of plaid further. To some this work just looks like overlapping colors, to others it isn't even that. Instead just some collection of squares. I enjoy how different people can "see" the pattern at work while others cannot. I also enjoy watching this with myself as I create. The more I add to a piece the more I can see what it is becoming and how it all interacts. 

The Show

Ever since I was little, I was obsessed with plaid. Eventually I was able to take a weaving class and began to understand this pattern on another level. I would weave and watch it slowly come together thread by thread, becoming more defined with each pass. With this knowledge I am able to finally create concise plaid patterns, as before I had felt they always lacked something. It occurred to me that I can paint these plaids and I have been thrilled to begin experiencing them on a larger and more complex scale. There are many rules that go into weaving a plaid. It is more than just squares and intersections of color. While I am definitely a person that loves rules, I have begun to discover that some rules have to be broken to actually make a painting function correctly. I have begun to push boundaries. I try to see what rules can be broken or shifted. Overtime I am learning how to take plaid patterns and make them my own. I have taken a set collection of rules and guidelines and made a new creation. I continue to search and try to find the perfect place between structure, freedom, and control. In this work I place an abstract form into the "real world". A playful dance between reality and abstraction, but not just regular abstraction. No, instead it has a sense of familiarity. 


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