I came to printmaking late in life, after careers in architecture and historic preservation. I’ve found that printmaking satisfies my love for process and planning. And it’s taught me to embrace spontaneity, surprise, and happy accidents as part of my practice.
I set rules for myself. I choose a pattern, a color palette, and a strategy for action. As I explore this narrow world I’ve set for myself, I look for as many variations and combinations as I can find. I’m interested in pushing the boundaries of my rules. I look for unexpected juxtapositions, playfulness, and variety within the system I’ve set into motion. I use mathematical concepts of rotational and mirror symmetry to generate patterns that seem chaotic, but that have an underlying order.
I use pattern and geometry as generators of form to explore new paths in printmaking.
