Watercolor, ink, and mica on paper. 
12.8"w x 16.75"h
 
I came to asemic art through a love of typography combined with a deep desire to unearth the forgotten, and ultimately unknowable, layers that connect us with the earliest humans—our beauty, brutality, intelligence, and poetry. During my explorations into an asemic syllabary, and then the first round of stories, those two drives evolved and collided in a tangled upheaval: The messy continuum of choices, sometimes terrible and sometimes exquisite, is a map of my own life, as well as that of society after society, up to the fraught present.

Process
Each layer is a challenge—to pause and center before taking up color, before laying it down, and to let time pass (sometimes hours, sometimes days) instead of rushing on to the next layer. Working on this series has been feeling like a cross between searching for the perfect wave and trying not to crunch down on a mint before it dissolves: two almost violently opposing kinds of patience.

Intent
I want the paintings in this series to be painfully personal and also tender, inviting. Their layering not only describes the passage of time, but also demands time. To pause with Forgetting and Remembering and others in the series, can be interesting, but to spend more time with it reveals more stories, and more layers.