Circling Back

I became enamored by the circles, the perfect circles, and partial circles, on the ground in west Texas and southeast New Mexico, as seen from a plane. These circular patterns are center pivot irrigation crop circles, created by a rotating sprinkler system that waters a field from a central point. This show grew out of experimenting with circles, half circles, clean circles, messy circles, and even putting circles on old paintings. 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.