Working large with molten encaustic on the heated encaustic monotype palette enables fluid sweeping gestures that would be impossible with wax painting, where long stokes would seize up and cool before completion. I developed this printmaking process so that gesture becomes geometry. The structure is achieved by folding the paper and printing across the folds, creating value changes or geometric shapes.

The folding/unfolding highlights elements of unfolding time. As the molten wax cools and my sweeping gestures are embedded within, I recognize the contoured earth, land seen from above, and my continuing uncharted journey. Abstraction, landscape, and map –— my works are all of these.