Math heavily informed the process of making and composing the drawings and paintings in this series. Math at its best is simple and elegant. Math at its worst is messy, frustrating, senseless, and disorienting.  And math is foundational to understanding the natural world – a common theme in my work.  I started conceptualizing this series in early 2025 as chaos and cruelty began to dominate the public discourse.  Math became a metaphor for the logical and illogical, and I was trying to make sense of it all. Math serves as a weighted blanket for my anxious soul.

I used straight lines to emphasize rigidity and inflexibility.  I experimented with the golden mean, square roots, and random geometry equations found in an old textbook to see how math would affect perception.   I made detailed drawings to help inform the paintings.  The drawings felt more elegant and orderly – the math was simpler.  The paintings felt messier and frustrating – the math did not always work or help.