This body of paintings is based on a model of an assembled web of strings strung in a black corner of my studio space at Western Washington University. In an attempt to break from conventional ways of painting and looking I began to use the negative spaces--the triangular black shapes defined by the intersections of colorful strings--to inform me in revering the roles of space and color in the painting. My theory was that I could still create observational paintings of my model, but no longer the colorful pink, blue, and green strings define space, but allowing the space itself to control the color.
