About My Work

The shapes and lines that we all draw while talking on the phone or sitting in class have been my subject for the past several years. I am moved by these drawings for their unselfconscious quality and mystery. The doodles could be cryptograms, geometric diagrams, or pictographs from another civilization. At their heart, however, they are very human marks, not necessarily elegant and usually offhand. For me, these symbols are a joyous and mysterious language that is both deeply personal and universal.

I collect and then photocopy found doodles onto transparencies and project them, much enlarged, onto my canvases. The projections reveal eccentric edges and turn the otherwise insignificant into something which commands attention. I have transformed the doodles into enormous icons emblazoned on large canvases that are displayed in groupings to create a body-scaled, physical experience for the viewer. The flatly painted surfaces suggest signage, or medieval heraldic shields.The paintings are configured to allow a narrative in which colors and shapes play off of one another, creating deeper conversations about space and energy.