One of my earliest memories is of obsessively organizing paint chips from a local hardware store. Color and obsession are essential elements in my practice. I work serially in order to create rules that I must follow. I've spent the past months unwinding from Columbia's MFA program by making a series of paintings about just that. I started the Unwinding Series after a frustrating studio day when I found myself writing “unwinding” on a painting. I’ve been thinking about the many meanings of unwinding, such as undoing, falling apart, surrendering, and failing. Linguistically, the word itself has meaningless/contradictory words within it: un-, win, wind, in (twice!), ding, and winding. I draw on humor and awkward absurdity to destabilize physical and psychological spaces. By making emotive paintings that undo themselves structurally, I hope that the paintings surrender to this process, so much so that out of the unwinding grows a becoming.