My work returns again and again to the motif of ribbons in various states of entanglement. I want to capture the sensation of the knot in the stomach, an intractable-seeming problem in the mind, the unifying feeling of loving someone, the sense of freedom that comes with extracting yourself from a bad situation, and to do this by using the visual codes of color and composition to evoke those gut feelings in a synesthetic sort of way. I want the work to look like those feelings, if they could be seen. The knotted/unknotted ribbon motif shows up in my acrylic paintings, wood cutouts, and flattened silhouette paintings, where each style produces a different intensity of interaction and serves as a counterpoint to the others. The canvas pieces offer the most dynamic variations in scale, color, and saturation, and the cutouts produce a sculptural effect, with weight, dimension, and materiality that the canvas pieces can only suggest. The black-and-white pieces move in the opposite direction, forming a kind of footprint of something that was once there but now comprises the work itself.