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.

In Playdate Study No. 7, shapes overlap like cut-paper fragments assembled in a rush of color. Soft peaches, dusky purples, terracotta, and pale lavender form a patchwork grid, each quadrant holding its own rhythm. A round lilac form floats near the upper left, while jagged and curved edges jut out on opposing sides, pushing against the order of the square frame. The arrangement feels both meticulous and offbeat—as if built through a process of trial, error, and delight. There’s a tactile exuberance to the way each color nestles or collides, suggesting a kind of logic that isn’t mathematical, but emotional. It’s a work that remembers how play can be both chaotic and intentional.