Recently, I spent an extended period of time focusing much of my energy on being a companion to an ill friend. When I returned to my studio, I felt the need to sit at my computer and immerse myself in the making of patterns. Many days passed before I put the computer aside and resumed dealing with the other aspects of my life that I had put on hold.

Months later those initial sketches became the starting point to create this body of work. Each pattern developed from multiplying an individual form – a digitalised drawing produced with the childhood toy Spirograph and coloured with the use of the application Photoshop. The images are constructed in the Photoshop application and with each piece I am experimenting with an expanded repertoire of the application’s tools. The circle form was initially used as a guide, and eventually was integrated into some of the pieces as another shape and as the defining frame. I would like each piece to resonate visually with a unique energy such as joy, calmness or melancholy. My intention is to create images that invite the viewer to look, to find pleasure in looking closer and potentially experience a wonderment in what they are seeing.

The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.