This ongoing body of work grows out of my fascination with the evolution of systems. I'm interested in the ways things are connected, both directly and through networks, and how simple elements can combine and evolve into complex organisms. Though the nature of these tends to be biological, there are parallels in social and information systems as well.

I see these latest linoleums as an extension of the work in my Flatlands series, but with the area of focus zoomed in. They are paintings made without paint. While still topographical in nature, I think of them less and less as satellite views and more as a glimpses through an imaginary microscope. The title of the series comes from a phrase in Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control, where he describes the poised disequilibrium of living systems, forever almost falling as they ride the edge between chaos and order. Not only does his phrase beautifully describe the adaptive self-correcting process of evolution, it's also a pretty good description of the painting process itself.

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