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These five untitled paintings (fraying 1-5) are part of a growing exploration that started in the summer of 2023. They are some of the early, smaller pieces, made as I was feeling my way through edges and layers; and through overlap, overwriting and re-emergence. It felt like looking for a kind of language, a different way of accessing what my conscious mind was wondering. Thinking about time, residue, friction.

It also pulled me out of a kind of creative cautiousness that had taken hold. It started with a single painting, colours layered on top of each other, with a sponge, dark on dark. Then light, then dark and so on. Enjoying the directness and physicality of the movements. Embracing how each layer could be overlaid and how I couldn’t control what would reappear as the colours accrued and started removing each other again. Enjoying the conversation between paint and paper/canvas, and paint and paint.

These paintings – both the act of making them and the resulting images – are a way for me to connect with time and history and the places I passed through, with their layers of scars and repeated mending. They remind me of a search for something that feels robust and burnished, overlaid, organic, enduring, still fragile.

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