“I create systems of text that resist instant clarity, so the viewer becomes a calibrator of meaning rather than a passive reader.” - SW
A Bit About
Making Sense
Making Sense is a series of paintings and drawings built from a custom font I designed to mirror how I read. At first glance the works appear as abstract geometry, but hidden inside are poems stretched across walls, floors, and objects. They turn the act of reading into something spatial and physical, offering a glimpse into how I process language.
The Full
Story
Why?
Making Sense is my attempt to express myself in a language that has never come easily. Words alone have never felt like enough. In this series the effort of reading becomes visible. What is usually private and hidden is made public and shared. The works ask you to slow down, to wrestle with meaning, and to experience language in a way you may never have before.
The Dialogue
The poems woven into these works speak to struggle, persistence, aspiration, and the daily reality of being an artist. They hold both quiet and loud acts of trying. Together they form a personal manifesto wrapped in text. But the dialogue is not only mine. It is a bridge for you to calibrate to my way of seeing and reading, in both senses of the word, deciphering letters and interpreting the world.
Where It Comes From
This series grows out of my larger practice of blending traditional materials with digital systems to explore perception and connection. I think in three dimensions, so the works bend poems into space, wrapping corners and surfaces, just as I rely on placement and context to read beyond individual letters. Stripping the works to black and white is both a design choice and a necessity. In full color the system would overwhelm. Monochrome simplifies the chaos and makes the structure clear enough to enter.
The Experience
My role is to build the system, the font, the poems, the distortions that shape the frame of reference. Your role is not to collaborate but to calibrate. The work only comes alive when you give it time. When you slow down. When you let the effort of reading become the meaning itself.
Why It Matters Now
We live in a culture built on speed. Words and images pass in an instant, consumed and forgotten. Making Sense resists that pace. It asks for patience in a time that values immediacy. It insists that effort creates connection. For collectors and audiences alike, the series offers something rare, a pause that holds weight and lingers.
Roles in the Work
My role is to build the system, the font, the poems, the distortions that shape the frame of reference. Your role is not to collaborate but to calibrate. The work only comes alive when you give it time. When you slow down. When you let the effort of reading become the meaning itself.
