Crescent Sandscape Painting

I'm a native New Yorker who has been painting (self taught) for over 10 years. In my current series, X-Treme Subtlety©, I paint with sand sourced from the public beaches of NYC in an effort to realize a balance between the incidental and the intentional within a visual field. I observe the terrain of construction sites, heavily polluted snowscapes, and urban beaches in order to address questions of scale, and of the significant divide between the found world and the curated one.