arrested thresholds

These works emerge from an ongoing fascination with the ways matter organizes itself. Working with pigments, minerals, salts, and chemical reactions, I create conditions in which materials can accumulate, crystallize, dissolve, and transform. Rather than depicting a landscape or a biological form directly, the paintings develop through processes that parallel those found throughout nature.

The title Arrested Thresholds refers to moments suspended between states of becoming. A threshold is a point of transition—a place where one condition gives way to another. Lava cools into stone. Minerals crystallize from solution. Cells regenerate after injury. Ecosystems recover following disturbance. Yet these processes are never fixed or guaranteed. Growth may stall, healing may remain incomplete, and formation may move toward dissolution.

Over time I began to notice striking similarities between geological formations and physiological structures. River systems resemble vascular networks. Volcanic landscapes echo cellular terrains. Crystalline deposits appear at once constructive and destructive. The same forces that shape mountains, coastlines, and mineral formations seem to operate within our own bodies.

Created during a period of reflection on health, regeneration, and resilience, these works consider the possibility that landscape and physiology are not separate domains, but manifestations of shared processes unfolding across different scales. The paintings occupy a space between macrocosm and microcosm, geology and biology, growth and decay.

I am interested in the moment before a form resolves into certainty—the point at which multiple futures remain possible. In that suspended condition, matter reveals itself not as static substance, but as an active participant in continual transformation.

Arrested Thresholds invites viewers to encounter these states of emergence and instability, and to consider whether the forces shaping the world around us may also be shaping the world within us.