There is always a place for me to begin. Sometimes it’s a page from a magazine, or a postcard from my grandmother’s travel collection, a piece of painted paper, or a small, unfinished collage that feels like it can grow. I build color stories—pulling from my sketchbooks, piles of papers, photographs, solid colors, painted and printed-on papers. Then I think about form as I put the papers down next to each other, finding colors and lines that connect. Each of these small color study artworks is an original analog collage made up of painted and found paper, framed and signed.

Artwork dimensions: Lagoon, 10 × 8 inches