Mixed Media

30” x 36”

As a coping mechanism, for both my autism and other diagnosis/various traumas, I have developed my brain circuit abstracts which help to reduce the noise and static in my head. This is a

helpful way of making my anxiety dissipate.

Being outside the safety of my own environment, makes me feel like I’m being electrocuted because there’s far more energy outside than I can safely absorb. This results in an inability to sleep very well and often I’m up for days on end. Using electrifying, fluorescent pigments that I feel match the colors my brain fires on, I start to paint small, layered strokes upon strokes that I feel resemble a labyrinth of paths hidden behind paths and passageways. As I’m painting, it feels like the energy that I absorb in the world is being extracted and laid on the canvas, creating a way for me to escape it.

I feel that these works resemble that path that my brain has built to allow the chaos to be extracted from my mind. Without these paths, it feels like I would be stuck inside my mind, not being able to explore the world outside. I can often see myself standing on the pathways inside my mind with fluorescent lightning above my head. If it were not for that colorful lightning lighting the path, I would remain in darkness and never find the door to the outside world