The images in my work become an abstract, map-like synthesis of the visual memories conjured in my mind by a word or idea. My work is created by patterns overlapping patterns. First, I have the quilted grid pattern which builds a practical structure and adds surface. Then, I design the overall composition which creates a symbolic landscape of anything from a field of concave circles to a valley or pools of water. I often use relief to create a topographical landscape or architecture, with lines responding to, encircling, and circumnavigating it.
Lines become pathways, etched into the surface by generations.
Finally, I have the iconography which is inspired not by a pristine natural landscape, but by the human response to it.