Drawing from various languages of abstraction—from Western modernist painting, to Andean textile design—I explore how the manipulation of painting, textiles, and traditional techniques can create tensions that reveal ideas about ancestral inheritance and transference, familial upbringing, and psychological contradiction. Through investigating these legacies of making, I invent studio rituals using formal painting moves and quotidian references to arrive at a place of intimacy.

Alongside painting, different materials like rope, textiles, and wooden constructions engage this process in which each physical act prompts new ways of revealing and reveling in the in-between stages of memory. My work is open to a fluid process of revision, reorder, and reuse. The provisional nature of my abstract painting is a way to expand from established structures, languages, and modes of making; to overcome its boundaries and reveal its new potential.