Walking Through a Daydream

Solo exhibition, Gadsden Museum of Art, 2023

Walking Through a Daydream is a collection of abstract mixed-media paintings and collages on paper. Influenced by the collaging techniques of contemporary sample-based musicians, reproductions of other artists’ works are dissected and reconfigured into repetitive patterns and alternating rhythms. Fragmentation, intricate layering, and atmospheric qualities produce ambiguous environments that rest between landscape and pure abstraction. The result of these detailed and complex compositions create meditative spaces for self-reflection on the balance of chaos and order of human existence. Symbols of flowers, skulls, trees, entangled with abstract marks and geometric structures, suggest places for contemplation of self, life cycles and the divine.