Studio Investigations
Bodies of work emerging through ongoing studio investigations
Sometimes a color, a material, or a movement appears internally.
At other times, entire spatial environments arrive in the imagination before their material path is known.
The next step is rarely visible beyond the present moment.
Through disciplined exploration of paint, metal leaf, natural earth elements, pearl, and paper, these inner signals gradually unfold into investigations that begin to ask for dimensional space.
Movement.
Light.
Perception shifting.
Experiences that interrupt habitual ways of seeing.
Studio Practice
My studio practice follows intuitive vision through material exploration, allowing conceptual understanding to emerge through the act of making.
Paintings often begin with brief internal signals — images, color relationships, or material directives — that reveal only the next step rather than a finished work.
Through layering, re-entering, and material experimentation, the painting gradually reveals itself as the work develops.
Installation concepts, by contrast, sometimes arrive as fully formed spatial intuitions, appearing before their material details are fully understood.
Across these investigations, painting begins to move beyond the frame — into spatial environments and perceptual encounters that question the assumed separation between humans and the living world.
Many of the paintings function as early spatial studies, testing material, perception, and scale before these ideas expand into full environments.
The studio currently holds three ongoing investigations, each at a different stage of emergence.
THE UNDERLYING INQUIRY
Across these investigations, a central question continues to surface: How can art interrupt the illusion that humans are separate from the living intelligence of nature?
Through shifts in scale, layered materials, and spatial perception, the work invites viewers to recognize that the same living intelligence moving through trees, sky, and seed is moving through us as well.
emerging Bodies of Work
Ecological perception
Re-Enter Nature
Previously completed landscapes are re-entered and transformed through layers of natural and reflective materials — paper, metal leaf, mother-of-pearl, glass glitter, cold wax, and other textural elements.
Each material reflects light differently from paint. As surfaces accumulate, the work begins to shift with changing light and movement around the piece. The landscape no longer behaves like a fixed image; it becomes something spatial, continuously altering as perception moves.
These works destabilize fixed perspective, allowing sky and land to merge and reconfigure.
The investigation is gradually evolving toward immersive environments where reflective materials extend into space — layered surfaces, suspended elements, and shifting light that allow the landscape to unfold around the viewer.
Radical abundance
Seed Pod
Conceived as installation
Seed pods contain the architecture of entire landscapes.
This investigation began with a vision of monumental seed pods suspended in space — forms inspired by the quiet elegance of desert mesquite and other desert plants.
Future environments imagine visitors entering or moving among these forms: suspended pods, rotating structures, mural-scale paintings, and subtle soundscapes of desert wind.
The work draws attention to the extraordinary abundance and intelligence present in natural forms we often overlook — revealing the intricate geometries and generative power contained within even the smallest seeds.
Painting studies may emerge alongside the installation work as a way of exploring these forms, textures, and repeating patterns.
Creative instinct
Dress / Undress
Dress / Undress explores adornment as an instinctive act of creativity.
Through 20 × 30 inch vertical paintings of dress forms layered with paper and mother-of-pearl, the work reconnects with a form of creativity many people knew instinctively as children — the impulse to dress, decorate, and transform without hesitation.
Adornment becomes a site of remembering. The same instinct that once guided childhood play continues to live beneath adult self-consciousness.
Future installations imagine life-scale environments where acts of dressing and adorning become shared creative gestures — spaces that invite visitors to rediscover their own intuitive relationship with creativity, beauty, and expression.
From Surface to Space
Many investigations begin as paintings or material studies.
Over time these surfaces begin to behave less like images and more like environments. Reflective materials shift with light, layered surfaces create changing depth, and perception moves with the viewer.
As these perceptual experiences develop, the work gradually extends beyond the frame. Materials move into space. Scale expands. Light, surface, and environment begin to operate together.
These investigations are gradually evolving toward installation environments where painting, material, light, and sound form immersive spatial experiences.
Rather than representing nature, these environments function as perceptual architectures — spaces that interrupt habitual ways of seeing and invite a remembering that the same intelligence shaping the natural world is moving through us as well.
The work explores the illusion that humans are separate from nature and invites a remembering that we are nature.
Participation
For Collectors
Collectors interested in acquiring available works from these investigations are welcome to inquire.
FOR CURATORS, INSTITUTIONS, AND COLLABORATING ARTISTS
These investigations are evolving toward large-scale installation environments.