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ORIGIN STORY

The artist name CIRCLES2LINES derives from the idea that our thoughts are habitual and cyclical in nature. When we begin to challenge our cyclical thought patterns through creative expression, our perceptions and reflections transform into evolutionary lines and bring us into new experiences and energies. 

Starting out, I aimed to uncover the unseen energies of our world. While capturing these dimensions through abstract drawings and paintings, my attention was redirected to the concrete geometrics of New York and other cityscapes. I came to look up in awe at lines, angles, patterns, and emotions created by urban structures and spaces. In inspired response, I transformed my practice into surreal, mixed-media collages contrasting abstract design with cityscapes and street life.

In its second iteration, CIRCLES2LINES has evolved into abstract and surreal social commentary and traces how the energy of our social-sphere/social-verse engages and interacts with universal elements. Observing social issues from a multi-dimensional perspective, I illustrate and visually conceive the emotion and reality of systemically and systematically rooted social issues.  

My ongoing series’ critically engage with current patterns in architecture and urbanism, illuminating how neoliberal systems destructively shift the energy and vibration of communities and space. 

My current VACANT series was birthed from seeing and feeling the aesthetic of New York City’s hyper-gentrified, suburbanized, commodified reality and researching the systemic, political, economic, and policy-based origins of that reality. 

EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD

CIRCLES2LINES has been illuminating realities since 2016. They have participated in groups shows in New York and New Mexico. In 2018, they served as a juror for New York City’s Scholastic Art Awards competition. 

2023 — Resonances, Currents 826, Santa Fe, NM

2019 — Surf’s Up: Cultivating Joy in the Apocalypse, Curate Santa Fe, Santa Fe, nM

2017 — Street art, Set NYC, New York, NY

PRACTICE 

CIRCLES2LINES challenge perceptions of reality by displaying what can be felt but not seen by the eye. How can what is felt be illustrated and visually conceived? Through mixed-media collage, abstraction, surrealism and social commentary CIRCLES2LINES creates experiential lines into new realities and consciousness.  

Starting each piece with an intuitive pen & ink and marker drawings, I transform the abstract form into a mixed-media, surreal collage by merging hand-drawn designs with photographs. Photograph subjects have been cityscapes, urban neighborhoods and street life while subjects of landscapes, random objects of anachronism and discarded technology, dystopia and architectural exploration are in the works. 

I’m currently further exploring immersive art forms, specifically murals, projection mapping, and oversized canvases, to bring the dimensions of CIRCLES2LINES to life. My aim is to create an enveloping holding environment of multi-dimensional design, abstraction, and surrealism in order to bring viewers into a displaced place of consciousness where what cannot be seen but felt comes to life.