My current work relates to the exploration and utilization of repetition by means of line, layer, and image.  I arrange the compositions to where the positive and negative spaces appear to be invading one another, in a continual struggle for significance.  Most of my current work is very flat and monochromatic; I choose to limit the palette because I think having too much color distracts the eye.  I believe that my work should not be limited to one medium, though working in two-dimensions has been the foundation for most of my work completed to date.  Options are always welcome; I had once heard that “if a concept can be better communicated by means of a different medium than you are accustomed to, why not employ that other medium?”  I agree with this statement and have slowly ventured out of my own personal comfort zone with exploring alternative means of expressing an idea.  The idea of found pieces used as the tool to apply ink, oil or graphite has been something I have flirted with on more than one occasion. I am interested in what the artist goes through when working; the trials and tribulations, the struggle and the required patience; I have began to work through these items that I have feared in years past, focusing on my relation with the work. When I work on the repetition pieces, my mind tells my hand to stop, but the relationship to the work is stronger than the mind would like it to be and the hand continues, sometimes unwillingly, to complete the twenty-one thousand drawn “+” symbols, or the fifteenth layer of white oil, or the seven-hundredth vertical line.