The Alice Collection is a group of 7 paintings that span a decade of my life.  The 7th painting is the time-lapse video, titled the “unfinished piece.” The"unfinished piece” captures the many iterations of what I had intended to be the final painting in this series.  During the Covid 19 lockdowns, I kept painting and re-painting this piece, eventually wearing down the paper to the point of tearing.  I finally realized that the painting was "finished” in the form of the time-lapse video, showing these continuous versions.  In hindsight, I believe that the disconnection during Covid and my personal experience of that, expressed itself through the "unfinished piece.”

Each painting was created on art paper cut from a roll and have dimensions of approximately 60-63”(h) x 42”(w). The materials used include graphite, acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, charcoal, and marker.

Before this collection, I’d predominantly worked with oil paints on canvas. The Alice Collection began as an experiment in painting on different surfaces, similar to how graffiti artists tag various structures. The name “Alice” was originally meant to be a “tag.” The name choice is an homage to my late grandmother, Alice.

I began this group in 2011 and finished in 2021. There was a 5-year time gap, (2012-2017), when I didn’t paint at all. That time in my life was a period of personal reckoning and deconstruction, leading to an evolution within my sense of self. The Alice Collection represents my journey through the “dark night of the soul.”

I have always been interested in the edgeless and nonlocal nature of our consciousness, contrasted against the finality of our bodies. Our inner-worlds have no tangible boundaries. And yet, we are moving around in bodies that have finite, objective boundaries. We are simultaneously corporeal and ethereal. We are both special and not special at all.