Constants explores the shifting balance between what holds steady and what is always in flux. Using a combination of painting and collaged imagery, I reflect on how our lives are shaped by both enduring constants and the ever-changing variables of perception, experience, and the shifting social, political, and natural landscapes we inhabit. These layered mixed-media paintings give form to the complexities inherent in being alive, using a blend of representation and abstraction to explore the tension between the known and the mysterious, the material and the immaterial, and the constant interplay between the everyday and the cosmic.

Rooted in ordinary spaces and objects such as rural landscapes, fire pits, swimming pools, and plastic lawn chairs, these works draw from the visual language of my own upbringing in the Midwest while also pointing to the shared, often overlooked elements of daily life. Each painting depicts a hybrid landscape where the familiar opens into the cosmic, the psychological, and the abstract; spaces where memory, imagination, and the unknown intersect. Collaged fragments pulled from technical diagrams, personal photographs, and found imagery weave into the language of abstract painting, disrupting linear ways of seeing and inviting viewers to reconsider how perception shapes the ways we find and assign meaning. Through this process, I reflect on how reality is not fixed but continually shaped by what we notice, what we overlook, and how we connect disparate pieces into something whole.

Building on painting’s history as a tool for reflection, translation, and transmission, I aim to create a space for wonder where viewers are invited to question what they see, dwell in uncertainty, and reconsider their relationship to the visible and invisible structures that shape our lives. Rather than offering fixed answers, these works encourage viewers to linger in ambiguity and find comfort in the shifting, unsettled nature of perception itself. Ultimately, Constants offers an invitation to pause within the complexity of the world, to anchor ourselves, however briefly, in the mystery of what endures, what changes, and how we continue to navigate this ever-shifting terrain.