The theme of regeneration is explored through the tension between brokenness and beauty. The harsh disintegration of the built world – be it from weathering, historical violence, or gentle time – is evoked by precariously stacked rectangles etched with incised lines. The lines are often lacy and fine, providing a delicate visual texture and enhancing the verticality of the composition.
Other times the lines are gash-like and cut deeply into the crimson under-layers, suggesting a more intense and complicated past. The over-layers are gentler, consisting of greens and earth colours that rise into stormy blues and greys. The aim is to evoke the way worn and broken structures often provide a calligraphy open to contradictory meanings: disintegration/creation; violence/care, destruction/healing. And how nature through time and weathering often softens these sometimes harsh messages.