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I make mixed-media paintings from cast resin, textiles, paper, and other materials. My paintings explore surface as an indexical record of action: holding the imprint of an impressed thread, a brushstroke, a cut or a fold. I am most interested in the permeability and mutability of the surface – considering at what point a single thread becomes a cloth, a cloth becomes a surface, or a surface becomes a picture plane. I plumb the inadvertent, incidental, indexical. For example: signs painted over on the subway columns; high water marks in the sand; the cascade of a Slinky down the stairs; 6 million years of water eroding the Grand Canyon; 6 months of leaking water eroding my apartment’s tub; a room becoming slightly smaller with each repainting; a painting becoming slightly bigger with each brushstroke.