Weird Science

Abstract painting, acrylic, pastels, and pencil on canvas, 36”x48” with wood frame. 2001

Rather than beginning with a fixed idea, I often approached painting in this period through searching, exploration, and a kind of automatic process. This piece grew that way, starting with a few colors or symbols and layering from there. I would respond to what surfaced, covering, revising, and letting accidents stay if they carried energy, until the image found a strange but instinctive balance. What I was after was not polish, but a sense of internal coherence that felt discovered rather than imposed.