I create abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures that explore the relationships between nature, science and Eastern thought through an open-ended systemic process of growth and evolution. Each painting begins with an underlying web created by randomly tracing the abstract contour of a template cut from an automatic drawing (or scribble). As the energized space shifts between chaos and meditation, spatial relationships unfold through a free-associative method of defining, eliminating and redefining forms with thin and thick layers of color. The resulting composition is an organically produced combination of arabesque-like transparencies and solid, puzzle-like shapes in which gestures made through time are apparent on the painting’s layered surface.

As with nature, my methodology possesses an innate intellect enabling an infinite production of forms, each one consisting of its own DNA. The sculptures are initiated by tracing the unique template of each DNA blueprint to create numerous symmetrical structures or “inkblot” shapes which are arranged into a totem configuration. The drawing is transferred to MDF, which is cut and assembled in an interlocking fashion.

A new series of Mandala drawings bear witness to the scientific idea of emergence. Within each, a single shape is traced in a radial sequence producing unpredictable, symmetrical patterns.

The system by which forms generate within my work is analogous to the self-organizing patterns of nature, such as the flow structure of a river delta as it meets the sea or the branching networks found within a tree and its leaves; as well as contemporary scientific areas of study, such as genetic structures and chaos theory. Eastern ideas of accessing the universal through emptiness inspire the simplistic means of my practice. Confining myself within the limits of scribbling, tracing and chance operations, I hope to transcend the banal and create an unpredictable universe of meditative energy and childlike wonder.