Abstract Landscapes

The story behind Abstract Landscapes

Synthesis. How does anything come to be? How do we make sense of ourselves and the world's we inhabit? How does the mind put shapes, colors, and tones together to interpret space and create place? How does perspective intertwine with experience to make meaning of a space? These are the questions that drew me towards creating abstract landscapes. I researched many past artists and their motivations towards abstraction and reverie towards nature, industry, and everything in between. From that research, I began to investigate my own process and how I went about creating a work of art. From there more questions came.

How do colors exist next to other colors? How do line and color interact to create space? How do I maintain process but create variation? What do I change? What rules do I construct? What's up with you and 3's? These questions led to me examining the role color plays in my process by working without it. I studied how composition and line can illicit mood without the use of color.

I liked to play off the idea I contain multiple universes inside of me, as we all do. I maintain common motifs between the series about scale and multiple perceptions, dueling landscapes and climates. Contradictions existing as forms. The Synthetic vs The Natural, The Manufactured vs The Organic. Eventually I began embedding 3 dimensional objects into canvas until, eventually the object became my canvas as I began working on televisions, and cardboard, and doors, and a car door if I could fine one. I call them combine landscapes. For more on this topic visit the found object page.

Later on, I begin to use text to generate these landscapes, as I continued to look at alternate avenues within my process. Abstract landscapes were an important jumping off point for my continued development as an artist as I challenged myself to work at different scales with different mediums.

I create these landscapes to contrast, and contradict. To inspire hope, and dwell in doldrums. They are thoughtful and thoughtless. They represent shifting perspectives, they are science and magic colliding.