I gravitate toward the abstract, toward investigations of form and color, and I enjoy Jennifer Sanchez’s work a lot. Her work has vibrancy, energy, and inventiveness to it. Line — whether straight or curved, geometric or curvilinear — intrigues me when it is “having a conversation”, and her work has this quality to it. Beautiful stuff.

When walking through the woods, I am often drawn into the play of organic textures, lines, shapes, forms. I could spend countless hours studying — truly looking at — the complexity of nature, and come away feeling enlightened in some way, or at the very least, calmer, complete with the knowledge that I really don’t know a lot about this world I inhabit. That I haven’t really looked at many things that surround me.

The feeling of wonder is under-rated, I believe. “Never lose your capacity for astonishment,” says graphic designer Milton Glaser.

I think we can keep expanding our capacity for astonishment and wonder if we work at it, if we take the time to look and invent and create, and Sanchez is doing that with her art.