Deconstructed
Emotional Abstraction
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This work explores how emotional, living moments continue to exist when they are translated into abstract form. Even as images shift into color and pattern, their emotional presence remains. The work sits in the space between public and private, motion and pause, clarity and ambiguity.
This work explores how emotional, living moments continue to exist when they are translated into abstract form. Even as images shift into color and pattern, their emotional presence remains. The work sits in the space between public and private, motion and pause, clarity and ambiguity.
The starting subjects are drawn from a variety of sources from copyright-free sites to my own work. This choice is practical but also intentional. These images are readily available, some widely circulated, and part of our digital landscape experience. Using different source matters allows the work to move across different subjects and experiences without being autobiographical in a literal way. At the same time, the moments resonate personally as I recognize the gestures, emotions, and quiet tensions within them, and that connection guides how the images are transformed.
Backgrounds are often altered or reimagined to reinforce feeling or movement, shifting the emotional weight of the image rather than preserving it as a fixed record. The goal is not realism, but resonance.
Circles and repeating patterns appear throughout the work. They reference cycles, continuity, and rhythm found in both nature and human experience. These forms sit alongside the figure, sometimes breaking it apart, sometimes holding it together, reflecting the tension between representation and abstraction.
The viewer plays an active role. Meaning is not fully contained within the image itself but emerges through looking, sensing, and interpreting. The work invites the viewer to complete the moment, carrying it forward through their own emotional and perceptual experience.
Recent experimentation with AI-generated imagery extends this exploration of translation and duality, introducing another layer between lived experience and representation. Whether present or absent in the final series, this experimentation reflects the same core interest: how emotion, presence, and meaning persist as images shift across forms.
This body of work focuses on key emotional milestones in a woman’s life, not through events themselves but through the quieter internal moments that accompany them. There are no big moments or visual cues that tell you exactly what’s happening. Instead, they sit in the in-between: the fleeting thoughts, private realizations, and emotional shifts that often go unseen.
A milestone might show up as a look, a pause, or a feeling that doesn’t quite have words yet. It’s not about the event itself, but the emotional residue it leaves behind. These are not autobiographical stories, but they are shaped by lived understanding and recognition.
This series leans more strongly into narrative. Each image captures a moment that feels suspended just before or just after something meaningful has happened. The viewer is dropped into that space without explanation.
There is a sense of anticipation, uncertainty, or quiet aftermath. The images suggest motion without resolution, leaving space for the viewer to imagine what has just happened or what is about to unfold.
Between Us (working Studies)
Between Us (working Studies)
A sketchbook and holding space
All signed prints are limited editions and are produced as Giclee prints on 100% archival, museum-quality paper.
Private commissions also available
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