Abstract paintings of these trellis sculptures allowed me to translate the concrete concepts involved, like the logic of natural laws, back into the painterly work I wanted to be making, as in The more you eat, which was created by layering abstract shapes and organic drips. I drew colors and forms from the live plants, and I began to search for ways to make spaces evoke feelings, as in but their most secret thoughts meet as when, based on “The Couple” by Tomas Tranströmer.