Airplane
Referencing the Wright brothers’ first successful powered flight, this painting uses cool tones, fractured space, and loosely suggested figures to convey uncertainty, ambition, and experimentation. The aircraft appears as an impression rather than a fixed image, emphasizing risk and possibility. The clock anchors the moment while the surrounding surface remains open and gestural.
Traffic Light
This work references Garrett Augustus Morgan’s three-position traffic signal. Built through layered color and assertive mark-making, the street system reads as a symbol of pause, permission, and control. The clock dominates as an authority, while the surrounding space stays loose and expressive.
Bicycle
Referencing Karl von Drais’ first documented ride of the Draisine, this piece reduces the bicycle and rider into essential forms built through heavy texture and restrained tone. The raw surface and loose brushwork echo early experimentation, where balance and movement were inseparable from time.
Steam Locomotive
This painting marks Richard Trevithick’s first successful run of a steam locomotive on rails. The train emerges through thick, gestural paint and loosely defined forms, evoking heat, weight, and motion. The clock reads as a quiet authority inside the composition, signaling mechanized time.
Standard Work Week
Referencing the establishment of the eight-hour workday for federal employees, this work centers the human body inside regulated time. Elongated figures and symbolic forms are rendered through simplified lines and layered color fields. The clock becomes a governing presence rather than a neutral object.