Slippery Geometry, Series A–I
walnut ink on paper, 22x30
2020

Slippery Geometry combines two long-time obsessions of mine into a single execution. As with many artists, a healthy portion of my practice stems from a love of the materials and tools. For me this has, across my life, often expressed itself as an interest in monochromatic works—pieces that explore image making with a single material.

I’ve also spent years trying to find a way to make abstract, linear works with inherently ‘wet’ materials. As such, it’s a desire to knowingly make work where the materials and the concept do not meet well. Perfect ideals meet imperfect means; exercises in futility, as it were (there’s a metaphor for life in there somewhere…)

This collection of works merges the two ideas: multi-layered linear geometric abstracts in monochromatic, water soluble inks. The goal is a constant field, without a center of focus—filled with shapes that continually divide the work into numerous sub-compositions.