Extended Moment

Ink allows a direct, not wholly controlled, and relatively indelible way of painting. It limits color concerns, and allows for concentration on structure and mark making.
In the Extended Moments series, I invite the viewer to participate in my experience of cultural observation–personal experience within socio-political backdrops–focusing here on carousel and river imagery. Utilizing panoramic fields of vision as means to experience these environments, my paintings reflect a lens-based record of time both intimate and frozen; the images are fractured, incomplete, containing misrepresentations, and figures out of proportion–ink is subject to water and paper. Likewise, cultural experience, though replete with external facts and internal intuitions, is just beyond our control. My work contributes to understanding, which exists within a state of flow.