The Weight of Confetti brings together my ongoing exploration of color, place, and abstraction with a lifelong fascination for the modernist clown paintings of artists like Picasso, Cézanne, and Miró. I’ve always been drawn to the way those paintings juggle humor, melancholy, and humanity. While the figures themselves disappear in my work, I remain interested in the emotional charge of their color, the movement of their painted surfaces, and the tension between celebration and melancholy. This attraction also feels personal. My mother volunteered as a clown, bringing moments of joy into places where laughter was a gift. The paintings are built from repeated woven structures that balance order with improvisation, while graphite rubbings gathered from streets, trees, and buildings around me are fixed with washes made from locally collected plants, grounding each work in the landscape of my daily life. Orchestrated bands of color move through the interlaced compositions like fragments of confetti celebrating the warmth of nostalgia and the weight of lived experience.