It is said everything we do is political. Over the years, my political involvement has been voting, donating, and marching in the streets. Then the USA 2016 election happened, and I was compelled into action in my art practice. Also, my twin sister and I are, politically, perfect opposites of each other. This personal issue has become a global phenomenon.
In my project, Place of Difference, I began to use colors diametrically opposed to each other as a way of expressing the current political culture, both public and personal. Through the juxtaposition of vivid, hard edges of opposing/complementary colors, a chromatic visual vibration occurs, which is the essential content of these paintings. The thick, eccentric lines moving through quadrilateral shapes work as paths of thought: probing, emerging, shifting, hesitating, halting, missing, passing, and sometimes connecting, amidst the conversation of differences we are all engaged in today.
