Artist Statement

My twin sister and I are both painters. When she abandons a work it comes to me. I paint over her work and then cut her rejected paintings apart, then recombine the fragments. The collaborations runs one way: She lets go, and I decide what her discarded work becomes.

A painting usually begins with chance: fragments placed where they land, a drip left where it fell, colors I would never choose. Then I bring in the grid, my argument with accident, a structure that holds chaos still long enough to be seen. Layers of paint, and wash build a surface where you can read both what was there and what I did to it. My currect series, began with a single drop of paint that fell by accident in the studio.

I make this work because I don’t believe accident and intentions are opposites. Most of what shapes a life arrives unchosen: what we inherit, what others leave behind, what simply happens. Authorship begins with what we do next. Working from my sister’s discards let me practice that literally, with the hand closest to my own.

The value of the work lies in that act of attention, these painting ask viewers to look at what was discarded and see what it could become, and to notice the moment a mistakes turns into a decision. They offer a model of collaboration without control, and of transformation that keeps its history visible instead of painting it over. Nothing here is wasted. Every painting is both an inheritance and an answer; something given to me, and something I chose to keep.