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2006 Collection: This was a germination period of making paintings very slowly, making at most one mark per session, and spending a lot of time looking. I experimented with making models of repeating patterns in nature and planning a future installation of three dimensional work.

2005 Collection: I experimented, painting over 60 small and large oil paintings on panel. I allowed myself to explore how the perception of a color shifts in relation to the colors that surround it, without worrying too much about the preciousness of the results. The process allowed for a  state of being open to change and reacting to context. Part of this is the way these paintings came about, appreciating that they were mirrors of my own thinking. They are abstract evidence, records of my always growing understanding of the world and my thought process.

1999-2004 Collection: During this time, I was researching war history. I took several trips to the Normandy region of France to document the remaining modular cast concrete German war bunkers that were used to occupy France during WWII. They were elegant, efficient sculptural designs. They remain as a symbol of occupation, like a scar, and erode into the landscape and have new buildings developing around them. I took hundreds of photos of the bunkers, of eroding boats, and made paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture models from the images I saw.

1998-1999 Collection: Most of this work was in response to research in Italy, where I was, of course, amazed by seeing painting in its context of architecture. The architectural proportions and shapes related so carefully to the human scale to give an entirely meaning to the images displayed on the surface. So I studied architectural proportion and scale, and made a series of artworks about that.