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. 8 feels like a celebration of edges and intersections. Warm earth tones—burnt orange, blush, terracotta—interlace with cooler accents of mint, navy, and lilac, creating a kind of patchwork that evokes both quilt and circuit board. A pink circle hovers like a rising sun on the right edge, while a bold hexagon anchors the bottom left, providing visual gravity amid the zigzagging contours. The clear acrylic overlay slices diagonally across the piece, adding another rhythm of interruption. There’s something musical here, almost percussive—the piece builds and breaks patterns in a way that mimics a syncopated beat. It’s one of the most compositionally complex works in the series, yet it still holds onto the series’ sense of wonder and intuitive construction.