While attending a lecture, something struck me when I heard the phrase "unconscious organizing principle," a phrase I had heard or read hundreds of times in reference to how we organize our experience and how we are organized by our experience. It hit me in a visual way, and I couldn't get it out of my head. I found myself writing about this as well as painting it:

“The image I am obsessed with is a kind of concretization of that phrase ‘organizing principle,’ because for the first time I saw it like a structure: birdcage, prison cell, house, antlers, architectural shape.”
What made this project unusual was that it felt like it required involvement with a collaborator or collaborators, things that took me beyond the confines of my studio. I needed music and movement-dance or animation:

“My figures are in relationship to these structures which hover and move in an articulated way... It occurred to me in the context of this idea: we can't really escape our organizing principles; they are ever-present in an unconscious, or pre-reflective way, and even if we become more self-reflective through analysis and therefore become aware of them, they remain our companions.”