With monotypes you have to work fast, use your intuition. Like painting, there is only one piece created—hence the name “mono” type. Unlike painting, you don’t have the opportunity to keep reworking the piece. I have designed these projects specifically to pull me out of the thinking state. I work quickly in order to use my gut before my head realizes what’s happening, to try to trace a perception before it is filtered or corrected, essentially the space between instinct and awareness. Each print feels like evidence of a moment before the mind has organized experience into a clean narrative.