Signs of Abstraction is a body of work adopting the format of 20th Century Post War abstraction. The meaningful basics of abstract painting (brush strokes, gesture, splatters, splats, dripping, drips, and drops) are the subject and image. These painterly ciphers are edited, categorized, and scanned into a computer as discrete files, creating a catalog or library. Each detail is resized and fabricated into a stencil using special software and a vinyl cutter. The stencils are, in turn, employed in the process of creating abstracted paintings.

Since the stencil is an identifiable patterned shape and the process of pure painting entrusts the subject to the medium, the effects vacillate between graphic denotation as painting and abstraction without subject. The process of performing an abstract painting, (normally associated with action, intuition, and expression) is revisited through a systematic operation with the assistance of present-day technology. This inevitably plays the authenticity of the artist's hand against a multiple, mechanical reproduction and pure abstraction against the image of abstraction.

These works are made of, and with, the language of abstraction: abstract painting assembled from a vocabulary of painterly signs.