I am intrigued by the poetically subtle, often inaudible, relationships between concepts and imagery, materials and process. In printmaking the medium is inherently repetitive in its process - scratching, inking, wiping, washing – and lends itself to visible connections and metaphors between materials and process. These relationships are important to me as what I am considering lies rooted in how you and I, as individuals, create meaning through a patterned process of learning, remembering and experiencing. A translation of physical routine, mental repetition and the perceived presence of something real and constructively understood are central to this process. My imagery is often of an isolated moment in a subject’s organic growth, created by highly repetitive and obsessive applications of nearly 200 layers of pigments, powders, or base materials; a likening to how we construct the meaning and understanding of both ourselves and our world, and simultaneously revealing connections, sometimes by way of close scrutiny, that we may not have realized or been intimately familiar.