Because my art is so different from what people are used to seeing, I’m often asked about my inspirations. Broadly, I’m influenced by the artists I grew up seeing and loving: Calder, Picasso, Appel, and Miro, to name just a handful. Theirs was the art I was moved by and drawn to. More specifically, I’m inspired by the perfect way randomness and precision fit together in the world. The starting point for all of my pieces is random because my monotypes are abstract [insert image of abstract monotype] but also precise because I transform those abstractions into perfect geometric forms. I guess the effort to find order in chaos is as old as time, so in that way there is really nothing new here. But I do like the idea of creating my own unique order by putting together these random pieces.