Painting allows me to explore perception, the space between emotion and cognition. I paint to produce new, visual patterns that, in turn, produce new patterns of thought, an array of colors and lines that stimulate the dance of neurons in the brain. Moiré patterns are the active, warping armature on which I explore color theory and the effect of color on the mind. These patterns are composed of lines so thin that they’re nearly just edges, carrying gradients that vary in hue and saturation.

The resulting images recall evaporating landscapes or writhing cellular productivity—the micro and macro at once. My paintings contain contradictions: areas of light and shadow that expand and contract and fields that read as monochromatic but contain dozens of different hues, optically mixing in dynamic equilibrium. These paintings present optical color phenomena, heightening the viewer’s awareness of the self and the way we find meaning through looking.