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I am a musician: a pianist. Fingering the keys in various scales until the melody releases itself.

In my work I experience a musicality not only in the play of the final shapes and colors but also in the movement of precut and colored pieces as I see how they work together. In the above work, I gathered a group of color blocks from which I discarded and added pieces while my fingers moved them here and there until I got what I thought would be a compelling assemblage. As I honed in on the final arrangement, I continued to move and move back the cutouts and to snip pieces as I fine tuned the placements. Sound of moving paper, sound of scissors cutting. Touching paper, touching scissors. And then…there it is. A simple melody.