Resilience

The series, “Resilience”, is my experience of the lethal effects of climate change on the environment I live in, translated into my paintings.  When painting I use color, gesture, movement, form, drips, and texture to symbolize the feelings of uncertainty, entanglement, fear, loss, hope and time. My compositions are the transitions of the concrete world to fragmented arrangements resulting in a more syncretistic approach guided by memory and intuition. When painting I give breaks in between layers to let the painting breath, allowing it to speak and guide me to the next layer. Furthermore, sometimes scraping the surface to allow the under layer to be seen, exposes the history of the painting. My intention is to ambiguously symbolize time and the effects of a mutated world in our anthropogenic time.