I love when people share photos of my work in their homes. It’s so fun to see where they live as I don’t often get to see. This artwork from 2007 found a home recently.

For the painting “Release” I was thinking of a release on several layers. I was thinking of it relating to what’s happening in the painting and also a state of mind when I created it. Like a flower releases a seed, or like a star turns into a supernova, or a coral releases a polyp, or a chrysalis releases a butterfly. These happenings all occur at different scales in nature. It shifts our perspective to being set free. “Release” symbolizes many layers of freedom from the micro to macro in our world. The 3D dimensional relief texture shapes create another physical release in the painting. My work at this time utilized a lot of low relief textures like modeling paste.