tetrahedron: a solid having four plane triangle faces; a triangular pyramid
These paintings began with my 2019 paintings titled Tetrahedron I-IV, which depict a two dimensional expression of a tetrahedron. I became obsessed with this pattern and used it to investigate color combinations and intentional “mess ups'“ of pattern through placement of color. I made nearly all of these paintings during January 2020 at Penland School of Craft’s Winter Residency. The final painting, Twenty-Three, was made in September of the same year, six months into the pandemic. I’m continuing to think on why this particular pattern grabbed my attention, and the compulsion I felt to repeatedly make it.
When making these, I rejected my typical method of working on multiple paintings at a time. I was making work outside of this series concurrently, but I made one tetrahedron painting at a time from start to finish. For this reason, I am presenting these paintings in order. Sequence and sequential acts are essential to their DNA.
