As a process painter, I don’t use color as ornament -- I use it as force, as structure, as the senses made visible.

Over the past six years my focus has shifted toward what I call the Image Object, images in our everyday world that are flat while existing in three-dimensional space.

Lydia favors art that articulates a relationship to self, to body, space, and form. Abstraction gives her means to illustrate the often figurative sensations of loss (future tense), alienation (physical), and doubt.

On the whole, the work is pared down and atmospheric, which is consistent with my previous paintings. They exist somewhere between representation and abstraction. Between form and formlessness.