The installation includes drawings, paintings, collage and
monoprints, arranged as a composition of pattern.

A PATTERN LANGUAGE by Christopher Alexander and
others was published in 1977. It’s a standard for
architects and planners to solve community design
through lived patterns. About the same time, late ’70s,
an art movement emerged; Pattern and Decoration (P&D)
(High/Low). Artists were influenced by decorative
traditions in textiles, mosaics, ceramics, wallpaper.
I was just finding my way as an artist then and was drawn
to the handwork of artisans while traveling to Africa, the
Middle East, and Japan. Their colors and patterns lifted
my spirit. Good design in our surroundings creates a
feeling of generosity.

The drawings in the show, without much color, form
hypnotic rhythms of enclosed space. Stillness and
silence are maps of connection. Walking outdoors is a
sequence of discoveries. I’m interested in unexpected
moves in a walk, more organic geometry than straight
lines.

Inventing new patterns has been a daily practice in my life
and work. It’s always changing and usually surprising.