"Lost My Bearings", 30" x 30", oil on canvas.

An abstract painting can be about how it looks and how it makes you feel. I started the painting with horizontal and vertical tracks. It felt like it could represent a woven textile or city road grid. The spheres added a feeling of motion. I felt the spheres could represent train wheels. I thought of the phase “going off the rails.” I finished the painting feeling it had gone from orderly to chaotic.

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.