My work is about relationships, both visual and metaphorical. I build compositions using color and simple abstract forms that travel across the picture plane creating movement and rhythms. These interactions function in the service of relationship building among the forms. The painting progresses through a “call and response” where changes are integral and necessary to the process of arriving at something whole; progress necessitates something lost or sacrificed, but always something gained in return. The work highlights the potential and possibilities that are inherent in the creative process and this process, in turn, reminds me that to practice art is to practice living.