The desire to overcomplicate is strong. I’m not sure if it’s innate or trained in me, but I cannot remember a time in my life when my brain wasn’t working on overdrive to find hidden meanings or make multiple connections. Nothing is as it seems. Add to that graduate school training, and the warning never to be “on the nose” and you have an over-complicator.

Yet I’m learning to let materials stand on their own as I prepare for Shift, July 21-September 11 at Bristol Art Museum.