Light Mappings

Light Mappings traces the shifting behavior of light as it moves across built and natural forms. These works explore how illumination fractures, softens, and reshapes the spaces we inhabit or observe—from architectural interiors to snow-covered mountains. Whether through structured geometries or simplified organic contours, each painting maps a moment when light transforms the visible world into something briefly abstract, atmospheric, and alive.

Constructed Radiance 

Constructed Radiance explores the shifting relationship between light, color, and built form. Across these paintings, light bends, fractures, and reassembles as it moves through architectural and natural spaces. Each work reflects moments where the human-made environment meets the natural world—sometimes in harmony, sometimes in tension. Together, they trace how illumination both defines and disrupts the structures we inhabit.

White Paintings

The reflection of the sunset on the snow-covered mountains changes the white to so many different colors. Some areas are a yellow-white, others a pink-white, or a lavender-white. The mountains are only this rainbow of colors for a few moments before becoming completely pink, then blue, and then night falls. I simplified the shapes and intensified the colors to communicate this rainbow that is not easily visible to the camera or the eye.

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