"Beyond the Emerald House!"

Growing up hearing impaired, I have navigated the world moving from noise and chaos into recognizable knowledge when attempting to understand what others are saying in day to day life. As someone with cochlear implants, I move back and forth between hearing and not hearing. As I listen to other people, I can misunderstand them, making conversations a challenge. I am using my experiences to generate these works, and using abstraction to create these different levels of imagery that get more and more distorted. This distortion calls attention to the idea that we are never getting the full picture. 

I saturate the colors and use palette knives to further distort the painting from its source. I apply thick paint to the surface of my substrates, and mark making then intensify the shapes and lines within the image.  The colors in the work talk to each other, as the color palettes from the previous work gets translated into these color swatch paintings, acting as a new understanding of the source image. Color and shape bring associations to mind, allowing the viewer different avenues to make sense of the work. Overall, the size of the paintings evoke the viewer to come close to view the tactility of the marks and the colors packed within one section of the piece.