I make found-word abstract paintings and films. I am interested in working with words that come from personal experiences; the chance, the banal, the uncomfortable. The words’ actual meanings become irrelevant, like a favorite movie quote, and I employ them as touchstones. My process is set in motion by the words’ visual transformation through paint. Abstracted found-words spontaneously make shapes in paint which I use to explore the limits of language. This organic evolution of shapes formed by words reflects the randomness of the source material itself. Painting in oil and acrylic on raw canvas, I begin with words in a grid layout, using custom modified paint. I work the materials to get shapes and all-over patterns. Different words will make different shapes. The collage of abstract colorful shapes on raw canvas moves translucent words in and out of legibility, like reading underwater. My paintings contend with moments that won’t let go, transforming them into documents of happy accidents and nonsense. I find an honesty to the nonsense. I need those strangely joyful experiences to keep me focused elsewhere, to forget that now is all there is.