I am exploring the intersections of painting, drawing and calligraphy (writing) inspired by the poetry of science, its ability to reimagine the world over and over again and its capacity to illumine the nature of our existence on this planet. As an artist who studied biochemistry in college, I am intrigued by the workings of the chemical and electric signals that catalyze and sustain life and by the fields of energy they create, in which everything is interconnected.
My process involves applying multiple layers of paint and ink using unconventional tools. The layers are created by applying and erasing and then reapplying colors, shapes and strokes with each layer leaving behind its traces. What results from the process is all the elements from the different layers of paint and ink interacting and reciprocating with one another, just as the layers of our lived experiences do.
Like a scientist in a laboratory, I set the parameters of the aesthetic experiment and let it unfold. The iterative experiment has deconstructed and reconstructed images, opening up new vistas and closing old possibilities, just as science has done from Ptolemy to Copernicus onto Herschel and from Newton to Einstein onto Bohr. It is a fluid, ever-changing process that embraces uncertainty over certainty while reflecting the nature of our existence, which is layered and interwoven with all things on this planet.