Playdate is a series of small abstract works that revisits and reimagines an earlier collaborative piece developed during my residency at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. In that project, children were invited to co-direct a digital composition in Illustrator, making decisions about color, form, and arrangement while I guided the process. Playdate builds on that spirit of improvisation and shared authorship—but this time, the play is self-directed. These works mark a conscious return to geometric abstraction as a space of possibility, where I test the limits of color and shape to explore what emerges when intuition leads. Rendered in a defined but joyful palette, each piece balances spontaneity with structure, inviting viewers to consider abstraction as both exploration and memory.

Playdate Study No. 5 plays with verticality and rhythm, stacking diamond-shaped planes and zigzag contours into a compact, almost architectural form. Pale lilac and lavender sit beside dusky maroon and mint, with occasional injections of blush and coral—like a color wheel cut into ribbons. A mint-green circle is pinned near the bottom, interrupting the symmetry and pulling the eye downward. The transparent acrylic layer slices diagonally across the composition, echoing the internal angles while softening the hard geometry with its ghostly overlay. There’s a crystalline quality to this piece—refined but not precious, orderly but not rigid. It feels like a moment of pause mid-motion, as if the whole thing could shuffle itself into a new formation at any moment.