each piece starts with a hunch and grows from there. nothing is planned, leaving much to chance. sometimes this creates doubt, which forces her to make a decision; at other times it creates excitement, which compels her to try something new.

nancy’s work begins with making the gesso: each component carefully measured, mixed, and applied painstakingly to the board, layer by layer, until the surface is built. artists have been using this technique for thousands of years — she always consider this as she claims it for her own. she lays down a cacophony of charcoal textures, lines, and forms and then takes them off. then she lays them down again. this process goes on until she finds what she is looking for.

in hindsight, chance doesn't really play a role at all — in the end she can see that she knew where she was headed the whole time.

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