2023
Chinese ink and acrylic on yupo paper
30 feet X 60 inches
In my Naturally Natural series, I explore collaboration between artist, material, and process through Chinese ink, acrylic, and gold on Yupo paper. I allow materials with different histories and behaviours to meet, resist, disperse, and accumulate in ways I can guide but not fully control.
In this large-scale work The Ground Between, I am interested in patchiness, uneven growth, ruptures, voids, and clustered formations unfolding across an extended field. At this scale, the painting is not experienced all at once, but gradually, through movement, shifting attention, and changing density. I think of nature not as a stable image, but as a layered system shaped by relation, interruption, and contingency.
The forms that emerge can suggest roots, fungal networks, mineral deposits, waterways, and atmospheric drift. Rather than simply depicting ecology, I want the work to behave ecologically, through accumulation, divergence, and transformation. The white ground remains active as a space of suspension and emergence, while gold functions not only as illumination, but also as concentration, deposit, or wound.