Recent engagements with philosophical texts have led me to become interested in time consciousness and how it relates to the revealing or apprehending of our daily experience. I was finding myself attracted to the shape of the triangle specifically because of how the structure reminds me of the human being existing within their past, present, and future in a single moment. The space within the borders of the triangle establishes the ground of life, the conscious horizon. I sought to explore the possibilities of triangles establishing the ground of my paintings and how the patterns of those shapes would continue to move through the different layers of paint like the echoes of memories or future desires. I was looking to meld a geometric approach to my art with the more painterly and textural qualities which are already present in my work.
I initiated each painting with a series of triangles in different proportions, positions, and colors on the surface. The repetition of the shape informed the ground of the painting. As the repeating triangles began to overlap, new forms emerged which became the containers for mark making, drawing together regions like shared memories between people. Sometimes the triangle returned at the end of the painting process as a singular object like an obelisk or grave marker, other times as a delicate network of joined lines representing a unity of spirit against the swirling tumult of the textured paint around its borders. Other times triangles of varying lengths would exist on the fringes, reminders of the varied duration and value of our own lives.