Hatches

Hatches swing open to reveal portals to other places. They uncover lost layers, like peeled wallpaper exposing old images and emotions, or lenses enhancing hidden features.

This series explores how simple design rules can lead to expressive compositions. These artworks simulate the process of drawing and coloring in a grid using simple forms, cross-hatched and painted. The textures meld and clash, adding energy to the works.

Each artwork can theoretically be recreated by someone with graph paper, pens and pencils, and watercolors for the solid washes -- though it would take time and a steady hand.

The series blends inspirations from Frank Lloyd Wright's decorative works, Art Deco patterns, the Bauhaus school, and Sol Le Witt's rules-based art practice to generate evocative new artworks.