This series of studio art works concerns fragmentation. “We’re so divided,” many people told me when I returned to the US in 2017 after living abroad for seven years. I was interested in this idea but instead of political, social, or cultural aspects I wanted to get closer to the source. I wanted to examine not just how we get information, but how we gather the most fundamental sensory stimuli and make use of them. How often do they flow from a single, unified, natural source and how often are they stripped apart, artificial, disparate, stranded? And how do these divisions affect our ability to observe, perceive, reason, and judge? These are the kinds of questions I was thinking about as I developed this series of paintings.
