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That influence, along with time spent living in Japan, informs the visual sensibility of my work: ambiguous, calligraphic, and open to multiple interpretations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Montserrat;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Montserrat;\"\u003eI invite the viewer to become part of the composition. Orientation is optional. Meaning is fluid. A work hung upside down may speak more truthfully than one hung ‘correctly’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Montserrat;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Montserrat;\"\u003eRaised by my mother, Patricia Howell— herself an expressive and prolific painter — I grew up immersed in colour and visual conversation. 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