My work is an exploration of the concept of interconnectedness It originated as a rejection of the limits and effects of representational painting, and a shift toward the un-selfconscious and intuitive nature of doodling. Through the time and space of each piece, it became a meditation on the energy, flux, chaos, and uniformity of everything around me. As my project progressed I began to see relationships among patterns and designs that I located in a wide range of images, including fingerprints, wood grain, leaves, rock formations, vegetables, fluvial systems, microorganisms, body tissues, cells, and diseases. Along with the images themselves, contemporary Australian Aboriginal dot paintings, and several philosophical texts, including Dogen's Moon In A Dewdrop, inspired my notion of connectivity and sense of temporality. In my pieces, each of these ostensibly dissimilar elements is linked by an intricate dot pattern. This pattern has come to symbolize, for me, the particles that make up everything. The concepts of microcosm and macrocosm are particularly relevant in my work, as they describe how the same level of complexity and detail often seems to exist in immense superstructures and also in the tiny substructures that comprise and inhabit them.

My experimentations in color and technique have been exciting and provocative for me. I go through the process of making formal decisions very intuitively, but also with attention to what exists in the rest of the piece, and the environment that I am working in. My primary desire is that viewers will explore and get lost in the elasticity of the pattern. As it shrinks, grows, and moves, I want their impressions to change with it. I have deliberately avoided having any definitive focal points in these pieces because I want to encourage wandering eyes and thoughts. I especially want to stimulate imagination. It is not essential that viewers see anything that I was thinking about when I was making it - encouraging them to make their own associations is even more important. While this series can stand on its own as a finished product, it remains openended, and exists for me as a starting point for exploring the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual components of my own existence.