Aquarelle is a body of work that represents my distant thoughts with abstract use of watercolor. The colors inspire an association made in my mind, but I'm avoiding making a piece with a specific plan. I like to take advantage of watercolor’s leeway, but once the color is placed, it’s forever absorbed into the thick cotton fibers, giving each streak of pigment a sense of purpose in its permanence. Within these pieces, I have experimented with scratching into the thickness of the paper, watching as the damp color seeps quickly into the scores made, which creates a hard edges. Imagine digging a canyon yourself to be filled with river...
As I’m experimenting with color and making these marks, I may be reminded of a thing, a feeling, a place or space, a color, or I may just keep working with what's already been done. I am content in the fact that I started each piece with little to no association, but as I progressed, I experienced little epiphanies for each work, bits of inspiration, displayed in the titles.
