Interstice:  a small opening, crack, or gap between two things; the space in-between.

My work explores the ideas of separation and division, integration and disintegration, rhythm and movement with marks made with encaustic, graphite, ink, and acrylic paint.  Using various supports ranging from the small and intimate to large scale work, bands of black and white called Interstices, investigate the relationships between contrast of value, shape, line, and rhythm.  The interstices echo the play of opposites, their symbolic engagement presents: existence and breath, movement and rest, darkness and light, disconnection and unification.

Opposites attract, they reinforce each other, make the other known.  The interstices bring about natural rhythms of life.  Their relationship with each other marks a passage of time, a moment where emphasis and cadence marks the syncopation of life’s tempo.  The sharpness of line, the disintegrating and morphing space resonates with the ebb and flow of divided and integrated areas.

The work is homage to the Abstract Expressionists and the automatism that was embodied within their work.  Fueled by their inspiration, my work is a discovery about my past and present, the separations and divisions within my existence, and is a metaphor to fuse seemingly disparate connections and reveal the personal rhythms within my being.