On Collecting, and the Life of Things

Fragments of Other Worlds
Step into my studio, and you encounter fragments of other worlds, quietly gathered and carefully arranged in their own spaces. Drawers of postcards, photographs, shelves of feathers, shells, and twigs. Pinboards layered with images, postcards, and small curiosities. Bookshelves filled with art books, each one a portal to another time or place. Everything is curated in its place, each object and image given room to be noticed, quietly forming a constellation of ideas.

Where Paintings Begin
Before a work takes form, there is gathering. Fragments noticed while walking. Images discovered unexpectedly or documented. Objects carried home and placed on shelves, in drawers, or on pinboards. Over time, they accumulate. They begin to speak to one another. From this quiet conversation, imagined worlds slowly emerge.

Language Alongside Objects
Alongside these objects, I write, often in single words. Words come in succession, repeatedly and all at once, forming groupings of thoughts and feelings. Words surface during the making of a painting, while sorting images, or even long after a work has been completed. The language continues, just as the collecting continues.

The Human Act of Collecting
The studio becomes an archive, of objects, drawings, images, photographs, and words. But collecting has never felt like a solitary act. There is something deeply human about gathering what resonates. Collecting a postcard. Saving a photograph. Keeping a small drawing. Writing down a single word before it disappears. Building a small personal cabinet of curiosities, on a shelf, in a drawer, or within a notebook.

Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Attention
Throughout history, artists have lived alongside the objects that shaped their vision. Domestic objects, bottles, vases, jugs, and jars, like those repeatedly painted by Giorgio Morandi, were not grand treasures, but familiar companions, ordinary forms made extraordinary through attention. Meaning accumulates through care.

Extending the Collections
It is in this spirit that the new Collections take shape. These pieces are extensions of each series, small, tangible fragments from the worlds within the paintings. They are designed to move beyond the wall and into your daily rituals. A cotton tote becomes a field bag, for wandering, for gathering, for carrying what you discover. Bone china plates become surfaces for treasured objects, small domestic cabinets in plain sight. The oversized T-shirt becomes a wearable fragment, something to live in, to move through the world with, carrying a piece of the series with you.

Shared Attention, Quiet Exchange
Each Collection is carefully composed around a body of work, offering a considered selection of objects that belong together. In this way, the imagined worlds of the paintings exist not only within the frame, but within your hands, your home, your movements. The act of collecting becomes shared, a quiet exchange of attention and imagination. A gentle invitation to notice more, to keep what resonates, to build your own archive of fragments.

Collecting as Evolution
Collecting is never finished. It evolves. It gathers meaning through attention. It makes the imagined tangible. Here, fragments of language float alongside objects, images, and drawings, small sparks that might ignite a new thought, a new image, a new world: Rhythm. Ribbons. Olympia. Limbs. Strings.

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