After a year devoted to abstraction, a quiet dissatisfaction drew me back toward the figurative — a renewed attentiveness to form, place, and the visible world. Through a series of small studies, I began negotiating the boundary between sensation and representation, ultimately arriving at a new body of semi-abstract work. These pieces are grounded in West Coast landscapes: coastal wind, afternoon light dissolving over water, horizons softened by haze. I am drawn to the way nature composes and flattens itself across distance — shifting patterns of light and atmosphere that migrate across terrain, transforming familiar forms into something at once legible and strange. The works seek not to document these conditions, but to distill them.