Rose and Taupe on Birch Painting

[Prints available at ] I mainly paint ribbons that are often, but not always, knotted in some way. What I find most interesting about this format is what the paintings can suggest about the ways we navigate our own entanglements. For instance, one painting might look dense and complex, with an overwhelming number of twists and turns. But if you spend some time tracing a piece of it, you soon find a path through the chaos. Sometimes the ribbons appear to be knotted but in fact aren’t. Sometimes the knotted ribbons have fixed boundaries, and other times they leave the edges of the canvas and go on indefinitely. Sometimes they’re bold and confrontational, and other times they’re just passing through. There are infinite ways to explore these representations, and I never tire of making work that pushes me to consider the possibilities.