In the summers of 2015 and 2016 I taught a summer class called Budding Einsteins, which let 5 and 6-year olds explore basic science concepts. It was exactly the kind of job young people are embarrassed to have on their resumes.  I loved it, and the chance to play and explore with the kids taught me an experimental painting technique of blowing bubbles into different colored inks. I've never been entirely sure what science concept this demonstrated to the kids, but returning to this enthusiastic sense of play allowed me to push my form in the way I manipulate type, and to evoke a sense of decay and impermanence that have become an important concept in recent personal work.

Working in this method provides a lot of physical randomness and unexpected results. My initial intention was to create letterforms or a typeface using this imagery, but became more interested in the image a multi-layered, semi-translucent surface.