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I make abstract art primarily using installations, sculpture, video, found objects, and oil painting. I'll combine some of these elements for my larger projects. Making art using multiple mediums enhances the emotionality in my work. Through installation, I create the structure for pieces to claim space and show their relationships. I assemble sculptures and installations with makeshift coupling; I use tape, glue, string, and wet paint. These methods give my work a precarious potential energy that mirrors the realistic chaos inherent in human emotions. I layer paintings with disparate mark-making techniques to intensify texture. I play with color, using heavy opaque darks to juxtapose the intensity of striking light expressions. I mix wet paint on canvas and work into the stain at different drying stages to push and pull the mixture. I'll find a swipe of beauty still haunted by gloom and frame the composition in that area around the allure of a veiled bright spot. I'm interested in the properties of specific pigments, how they spread, their opacity, how they dry, and other properties I find through playful experimentation. Color is secondary to a paint's properties; often, I can mix a color that looks nearly identical to the one I want in a space, but I mix using pigments I know will give me the properties I need. I want to capture the viewer's time. I create challenging compositions that make a piece difficult to read and file away as something specific the more time you spend with them.