My newest work is a series of pieces I have come to call c-scales. They are a product of five years’ research and experience, and an amalgam of several areas of exploration.

In 2013 I became aware of the painting of the pioneering abstract Korean artist Kim Whanki (1913-1974). Whanki’s later paintings from his New York period held a particular resonance for me. They were calligraphic and spoke to me of musical notation and binary code. Ideas of messaging danced in my mind; I remembered the illuminated form of Morse code, a system of dots and dashes made in long and short blinks of light. I began employing Morse code to translate texts, so that I could produce both pattern and a decipherable message. I loved the notion of embedding personally meaningful information into my work in such a literal and distilled manner.