These paintings are informed by distinct and sometimes discordant themes in art history. My interests include Renaissance painting, color field painting, pure abstraction, and the grid. The work is an attempt to both reveal and reconcile the apparent incongruities within these disparate elements. The title of the show reflects the deliberate yet often confounding process of constructing a painting. Body parts drop into geometric patterns. Naturalism and abstraction merge or overlap. The resulting tension speaks to contrasting forces of gravity and weightlessness, made manifest in depictions of familiar objects occupying imaginary spaces. Feet are avatars in these paintings, symbolizing bodies without concern for physicality, individuality, or gender. Surreal colors serve to nullify a sense of time or place. My goal is not necessarily to create a coherent whole but to collect and mobilize the individual parts, searching for strange forms and unexpected functions.