Bloom & Bone, 2026

Bloom & Bone takes its name from a contradiction at the center of the work. A soft, organic gesture is held up by the rigid precision of a wire mesh. The piece originated in watercolor, a medium taken up again after years spent primarily in digital practice, during a retreat set in a natural landscape. The loose, brushy abstraction that had defined earlier work resurfaced. The aesthetic is defined by liquid, biological forms that read, depending on the viewer, as microscopic habitats or as maps of unknown terrain. Built from large, fluid shapes overlaid with small, textured linework, these images raised a question of what it would look like to carry that same hand into a different form entirely. First they were redrawn digitally, staying as close to the original style as possible. Then they were taken further still, mapped onto three-dimensional geometry and suspended by that same mesh.

It is an armature in the most literal sense, a computational structure built for something made by following liquid and texture wherever they wanted to go. The two processes are, in a real sense, antithetical. Where one grows, the other calculates. Yet it is this rigid understructure that allows the piece to loop, to breathe, to shift between stillness and motion in a way the original watercolor never could. The work sits inside that contradiction, an intuitive gesture kept alive by the exact kind of structure that would seem to resist it.