Carol Mode: Artist Statement 

In my paintings I am looking for spaces in the mind, mental maps of visual information. The method I use employs patterns and locaters as each mark may re-appear in discrete layers. The creating of each layer resembles a building process with uncovering, excavating and rebuilding of images on the surface. My challenge is to do this without imposing artificial structures.

I am interested in exploring possibilities of image repetition in that they represent slight changes in a moment of time. It is the reorganizing of the imagery that becomes the challenge, something like a chess game. I use
abstraction as a vehicle for the continuous discovery of new forms in space