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I am influenced by my daily observations--the bosque and swimming pool that I view at home, the Hebrew letters that are in my visual field from teaching at a Jewish school, and the interior spaces that I reside in with my family. Although I am constantly aware of how recognizable and understandable the physical landscape seems behind my house, I also am aware that it is in constant change. And as much as it is familiar, it is always appears different. I feel its power, chaos, and energy, the essence of which is what I try to harness in a visual format. The screen prints are seemingly easy to understand. When you view them at a distance, you see a composition organized mainly in large geometric shapes. The color is subdued and complex, yet saturated like the color found in a winter landscape. From a distance, your eye moves through the work vertically or horizontally. These works are suggestive of landscapes, not only with the horizontal division and with the almost infinitesimal permutations of positive and negative spaces, but also with the creation of light. The perpendicular rectangles suggest a window, door or other portal. As you move closer, you see a layering of calligraphic lines with subtle shifts of color. There are circles, some of which are semi-attached. With the latter, the circles are either separating in a fission-like activity or being drawn together with magnetic attraction. Within each circle are abstract signs that could be an eastern language--an abstract visual thought bubble. The aggregation of marks suggests not only calligraphic letters of language, but genes, cells and digital information. Yet together, the aggregated marks create light and produce form, assembling themselves into a larger whole. My working method is intuitive and my screen prints are meant to be a working method to experiment within a designated framework, not to make editions of the same image. I use a variety of media, including collage, flashe, acrylic paint, ink, various papers and mylar. I leave the process visible in the art to leave the art open to its creation. I explore all accidents as possible signs to move forward in my work and not as mistakes to discard (although that does happen). Although screen-printing can be used for homogeneous, predictable, commodity-like applications, I embrace the screen printing process for its fluidity, which allows for interesting and unpredictable results. |
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