My work has always been the product of observation and extraction. In this current series I am engaged in, I photograph or videotape common landscape details and work from a projection of a digital variation of the detail. "Road Squiggles," my latest body of work, takes the tar drippings used to fill cracks in the road as the starting point to create topographic, calligraphic, or cellular terrain. The way these poured tar squiggles are produced is in itself a type of "action painting" that intrigues me immensely. The intricately worked patterns and surfaces of the final images reveal abstract renderings of my children's motion in play and mappings of my travels and thoughts.

The video documentation obliterates the road and becomes a hallucinatory, scrolling canvas in motion, reeling out lines and shapes and colors in a fierce jazz rhythm (it calls to mind the experimental films of Stan Brakhage and others who would make their marks directly onto celluloid). I am also in the process of rendering multiples of certain squiggles three dimensionally and placing them back into the environment from which they came in various configurations to create different mandala -like patterns, or stretch on infinitely towards the horizon, activating and re-interpreting a given space or environment.