“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”

— Paul Klee

If you had to create a diagram of the moments in yout life what would they look like? How would you contruct the diagrams? What would you include? What would you leave out? How is a that moment can feel like an eternity while a decade can feel like a fleeting moment? How can you In a split second experience what feels like minutes? The subject of time has always been a fascination for me. I find myself swinging between two points in my thinking about time—one that time is just the now with no past and no future all the way to the other side of the spectrum to a view point that time is a huge linear event and I have dropped into one tiny part of it. The one constant in all of this is the vision in my head that time is a series of circles always in motion, fluid and in constant motion. Each time I look back at an event I create a tangible circle of that bit of time. The images in this series are the beginning of a larger series of works in which I will record amount of time into works of art.  

Statement about process and techniques
The works in these series use a technique used by Paul Klee which fascinated me and I wanted to know how he did it. In many of his paintings he used a technique of oil transfer creating drawings of unusual and beautiful line which he then colored with watercolor. He would coat a sheet of paper with a layer of oil paint and then place another piece of paper over that and do a drawing. The line created from this technique is unlike any that can be achieved from drawing directly on paper—a line that is expressive, rough, textured, alive and cannot be changed. Over this line drawing he would paint watercolor and the oil served as a natural resist for the paint. I changed up his process a bit in my attempt at achieving his line quality. I first coat a large plate of brass with a coat of print making ink. I then place a large sheet of paper over this and do my drawing. The line quality is similar to that of Klee, perhaps a bit rougher and darker. Over this I have applied dyes and liquid watercolors. He is quite correct in stating “A line is a dot that went for a walk.”