The past several years, I spent many hours on a plane flying from Philadelphia to Texas and New Mexico to care for my parents. I became very enamored by the circles, perfect circles, or maybe partial circles, on the ground in the landscape of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. These circular patterns are center pivot irrigation crop circles, created by a rotating sprinkler system that waters a field from a central point.
My recent work grew out of experimenting with circles, half circles, clean circles, messy circles, and even putting circles on old paintings that no longer satisfied me. I am very drawn to geometric shapes, orthogonal layouts, and repeating patterns. My work is inspired by images I see, and then it goes off in different directions, with repetition and mistakes as the defining part of the process.
