The Connected series examines contact as a transformative act. Built through both transparent and opaque fields of color, the paintings use large sweeping arcs, overlapping connections, measured distances, and veils of color that fade before resolution to explore how forms change through contact.

Created horizontally on a custom-built stage, the works are shaped through a deliberate process of intention and surrender. Anchor points, long-radius tools, and controlled paint consistencies establish the structure, while color veils that thin, drag, fade, or burn out allow moments of chance and interruption to reveal themselves.

At the center of the series is a shift from connection as simple harmony toward connection as consequence. An overlapping connection can create both a new shape and a new color, but it can also behave as a bruise, collision, rupture, or failed repair. The paintings ask what happens when forms, colors, and relationships come into contact — and what remains after they are changed.

While the works are rooted in balance, clarity, and visual calm, they also acknowledge that connection is rarely neutral. It can hold closeness and distance at the same time. It can create beauty, but also pressure, distortion, interruption, and traces that do not fully disappear. Connected reflects this tension: the desire to come together, and the changes that contact leaves behind.