Pipeline Dreams: Overflow

This painting came from a place of pressure. I wasn’t trying to make something clean or resolved, I was responding to the feeling of having too much moving through me at once. The lines and grids started as attempts at structure, but they couldn’t hold everything. Color kept pushing through, dripping, crossing, pooling, refusing to stay in its place.

There’s a sense of motion here, but not forward motion. It feels more like being inside a system that’s overloaded, where things keep flowing even when they’re blocked or misdirected. Some areas feel built up and heavy, others scraped back or interrupted, like decisions made and unmade on the surface.

I think of this piece as less about control and more about endurance. It’s about staying inside the mess, letting the energy move, and not forcing clarity too soon. The painting doesn’t try to explain itself, it just holds what was there and lets it show.