Artist Statement: For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with patterns, color, design and form. My collage artworks are made up of multiple abstract paintings and color studies that are then cut down into small strips and rearranged to create a new perception. Each collage goes through the same processes of creation, the tedious and meditative cutting up of the pieces, and then putting them back together again in a new configuration. I am drawn to bright, happy, and saturated colors; using high flow and soft body acrylic paints, florescent alcohol inks, and watercolors on a specialty paper that is made of plastic called Yupo. Each finished work is a newly envisaged dreamworld, an escape into vivid color and organic movement. The themes of my work include the impact of change, reincarnation, impulsivity and spontaneity. With this work I am going to create vibrant conceptual landscapes that are overwhelming and freeing at the same time. I love the order and structure of the cut pieces versus the chaos of the graphic color; a contradiction that I am further exploring in my new bodies of work.