DAY MAP SQ. 527 Painting

Painting began for me as a way to improvise and organize what was in my mind. Seeing my inner dialogue reflected on paper heightened my self-awareness and I wanted to share this experience with others. I seek to create an experience or a state of mind for the viewer that inspires a change in perception or a focused consciousness. On a technical basis I am always fine tuning and exploring what shapes, colors, and scale best allow for this type of experience. The birth of my daughter inspired my Day Maps paintings. I use watercolors, which is a delicate medium, a basic shape, and subtle use of color to show fragility. I want to show a complete body, while at the time, showing the individual parts that create it. My process was initiated by my daily organizing and setting values to life tasks, events, situations and other "emotional data." I then translate these values into different colors and sizes of circles. The arrangement of these individual shapes, which build a unified piece, represents the process of balancing elements in my life.