Tracing the Moon, Artist's Statement

As an artist, I appreciate the inherent beauty of materials—the luminosity of watercolor, the translucency of Japanese paper, the gleam of metallic thread—and strive to celebrate that quality in my art. I have long been fascinated with colors and layers and how their physical, visual qualities can add emotional or symbolic resonance to a piece. The process of deliberately tearing apart in order to reassemble—imposing order onto chaos, even if that chaos is self-created—remains a compelling focus. In a society that values constant stimuli, rapid production, and instant gratification, I invite the viewer to pause, to rest, and to reflect.

This body of work is rooted in simple observation of the sky—infinite shades of blue, shape-shifting clouds, low bleeding sun, the rising moon, pregnant with light and symbolism. These routine yet cosmic shifts subtly mark the passage of time. The work further developed to consider that movement, its cycles, and how we try to grasp what continuously changes.

For me the phrase “Tracing the Moon” describes this impossible task—an attempt to capture something that cannot be bound by a mere artist wielding a brush. The representation inevitably falls short of the ideal. Time cannot be frozen. Memory is fallible. How do we even begin to communicate the essence of a particular moment to another human being?

Looking up at the night sky overwhelmed with stars, on tiptoe, arms outstretched to get at something elusive, unattainable, unfathomable…Perhaps it’s simply in the stretching and reaching that we find something to measure, something that matters. Maybe beauty exists in the attempt.