My work is rooted in a process that alludes to the idea of fecundity. I generate hundreds of elements through the systematic repetition of mark or material to make objects and environments that reflect both internal and external worlds.

Just as in nature, where flowers insure their survival with brilliance of hue, my works tend toward sensuous beauty. I use colors with exaggerated vibrancy and forms that evoke a host of possibilities in organic life. Suggesting both the familiar and the fantastical, the images are always just a step away from dissolving into masses of line or shape. Their motions imply growth, expansion and outpouring; motions that are sensed physically in the body; and that in part, convey ideas about the tensions between containment and release, surrender and resistance.

My works also swell with contradictions. Their spontaneous presence belies their painstaking construction. The materials appear potently organic in one moment and completely synthetic the next. Even when they hint at monumentality, my pieces also exude a tangible sense of mutability and fragility; their clearly constructed presence is an admission of life's transience and the vulnerability of yearning for permanence.

While these counterpoints and tensions are pivotal, so is the harmony that emerges. My pieces embody a kind of hope. As the forms multiply and amass, they allude to the idea of ongoing flow: a tiny stroke morphs into a stream of droplets that grows into a river of color three stories tall, perhaps it could stretch on forever. As I magnify the continuum of life that surrounds us, I wish to assert an attitude of flourishing, even when evoking decay.

-Katy Stone, 2008