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The Abstract Biology series explores the abstract visual language already present within biological structures. Drawing on microscopic tissue structures, butterfly wing scales and patterns, corals, sea anemones, and other living forms, the paintings investigate how growth, repetition, symmetry, and cellular organization can become the basis of abstract composition. The paintings isolate and enlarge formal relationships found within living systems. Cellular clusters, layered contours, radial structures, and repeated units become arrangements of color, rhythm, and geometry. Through simplification and chromatic transformation, biological morphology enters into dialogue with the visual language of modernist abstraction. The imagery remains grounded in observation even as it develops an independent pictorial order. Scale remains intentionally ambiguous. A form may suggest a cell, a tissue, a reef, or a landscape without settling into a single identity. Microscopic and macroscopic readings coexist, encouraging viewers to move between biological observation and abstract perception. Familiar references gradually recede while the organizing patterns of living systems remain visible. Here, abstraction begins with close attention to how living forms are organized.

Abstract Biology

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