The mysterious ability of abstraction to move the human heart and mind has always fascinated me. When I photograph a beautiful tree I understand why people respond. After all, it\u2019s a beautiful tree. When I create a photogram of a simple circle bisected by a line I have no understanding why it moves me or others, but it can. I love the cryptic nature of the conversation between art and emotion. Agnes Martin spent a lifetime creating her simple, mesmerizing, rectangular grid paintings in an effort to depict happiness on a canvas. What a glorious pursuit, and she captured it with a simple rectangle!<\/p>\n
In the work shown here I have been exploring geometric abstraction, trying to figure out what I might create with justlines, circles, triangles and squares. The process is completely intuitive. I add and subtract shapes and layers until somehow they seem right. When it feels complete I stop and move on. The exciting and wonderful thing about creat-ing geometric abstracts is the possibilities are infinite.A simple circle can spawn endless images. I guess I\u2019ll be at this for some time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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