Combination of analog and digital work. The two works in this collections (I&II) are made from a four-page spread in an analog notebook. As the color is applied to paper, it bleeds onto the other side and allows me to trace similar yet different motifs that act as portals for moving the story forward.

These works are reflections on repetitions over many days and nights, repeating, reflecting and internalizing the movements in my martial arts practice. I begun learning classical/ancient Japanese art of Kobudo around eight years ago and have spent many, many hours repeating some of the same movements and forms. Yet it is never really the same movement, as I myself am never the same, nor is the moment when it is repeated. While it feels like a repetition, it is also a spiral movement of learning and growing. This practice truly transformed many things in my inner life and gave me a language of self expression with which I had been previously unfamiliar, but that became an integral part of my daily life. Oftentimes, I scribble notes about things that occur or insights that I gain during practice right after I finish a session, but sometimes I am not called to verbalize but to express things in visual language. So these are in a sense visual field notes or syntheses of experience over many cycles expressed through an intuitive visualization.