Our ability to keep and build strong connections with people and community today is challenged with COVID.
Painting in my process I started with markings, intuitively as a freeing unmasked action. As I progressed, I adapted to the form the painting took me choosing to ride it the strong reds later toned down with cooler layers of blue. I tie this to the feeling that resiliency requires adaptability.
The figures I also think about how people come into your life for a season, they impact you. Tiny squares moving around are like the migration to Puerto Rico my family did growing up which taught me many lessons of resilience and new ways to connect with people. Squares repeat in textured lace paper.