Threshold

Threshold represents my personal visual language, manifested through constraint. I work within three limits: subject matter — the Maine forest; a restricted palette of six colors; and a square format, 36" x 36", the constraint that contains all the others.

The square is the most neutral of formats. It imposes no narrative direction the way a landscape or portrait rectangle does — it says nothing about horizon, nothing about the relationship between earth and sky. It puts the full burden of meaning on what happens inside it.

I have found that constraint is generative. The tighter the context, the greater the impact. Threshold is, at its core, an artistic conversation I am holding with myself about my world, and how to talk about it in paint.