All the Flight in Our Land, 2025, 16 x 20 x 1.25 inches framed, acrylic, flashe, LDPE on canvas mounted to illustration board, float framed in light wood color

The Story Behind the Work

We often think of paintings as flat surfaces, favoring the front plane while overlooking their dimensionality. Yet paintings are three-dimensional objects, with hidden structures—stretcher bars, raw canvas backs, and the unseen labor of their making.

With this piece, I emphasize these hidden structures by revealing both the front and back of the canvas while removing stretcher bars altogether. By intuitively bending and folding painted canvas over and around itself, I create works that blur the boundary between painting and sculpture, making multiple perspectives visible at once.

By physically layering and entwining different viewpoints, this work encourages a deeper engagement beyond surface-level assumptions, urging viewers to examine their own hidden support structures, and to consider alternative perspectives with empathy.