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A Pair of Things

What are you most meticulous about in my work. Each piece here starts with
as an artist? the notions of risk juxtaposed with
Certainly not my process. Being calculated marks. Broad, spontaneous
meticulous is not in my vocabulary. It color "elds of thick acrylics are
kills creative thinking. confronted with deliberate and intricate
markings of the ink’s #uidity, so that
When you enter your studio, how the visual order is constantly shifting as
much do you control the brush, and I welcome the arbitrary while making
how much does it control you? sure to stay conscious of its counterpart.
I try to have clarity and openness to Hence, the name of the series.
trust this process as it unfolds. !e
more I control the brush, the harder the Overall, I "nd that this process mirrors
process is. Interestingly, my 2017 series, the duality of human nature: how
At the Seams, explores the notions of risk deliberate are we in what we invite in
and control. !e in-between places are versus what we allow to unfold? It results
what intrigue me. in a complex yet intuitive symmetry,
where both the unexpected and the
Tell us more about At the Seams: intentional live in a delicate balance—
!e search for balance is fundamental both in our lives and in art.
Without Intensions

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