J: Do you see these details and ideas to be organized on a macro and a micro level? D: I appreciate the simplicity of a cube, a shape that can resemble a box, a gift, or a suitcase. The cube is a basic form that we encounter in various aspects of life, from Christmas presents to stacks of wood pallets, or even inventory at big box stores. While I have worked with cuboids for years, the Cuboids didn’t really make an appearance in my work until the Catalina years (2016-2021). My studio itself was a shipping container, cuboid, in a complex of stacked containers. Anyone looking back at me was looking at me in a cube. Outside my studio window, you would see dry docked boats and stacks of lobster traps, most of which sat for eight months of the year, unused until the season started again. I think about this shape the same way as reorganizing a pile of disheveled papers into a stack, which eventually becomes a cube there is a story in there, or at the very least information. Even in our current neighborhood in Laguna Beach, the homes are predominantly cubical. How can you add flair to a cube? I achieve that with light, the addition of geometric bars, and color.
