The States of Mind series is a collection of 109 8”x8” canvas paintings. Each individual canvas is layered and labored with Latex paint, Household chemicals, oil/chalk pastels, marble grit, rust, and stains. Generally created in sets of 6, each work stands alone as capsulations of a particular moment, physical and/or emotional state, made in one sitting. The series allowed me to push myself and the paint - to build a “cook book” of how to achieve textures with combinations of material- these lessons will and have been utilized in large scale works. The edges of the canvas are coated in paraffin wax and black oil pastel. These works were created during a Fall 2023 residency at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The series was sustainably created saving car loads of paint, stains and chemicals from disposal at The Green Project, New Orleans.