The Small Parts (2018), is a group of intimately scaled, ink-on-paper paintings, collages, photographs, and a sculpture. The artworks depict a range of enigmatic images including IKEA chairs, MRI transparencies, a curtain, drinking glasses, and embodied gestures. Working with the relational space between the object and the body, this work points to a sense of absence or a distance. Several of the works began as cast-offs or bits and pieces of studio ephemera which then became connective tissue between recognizable objects and improvisational abstraction. The uses of negative space, transparency, or obstruction suggest a sense that something is unseen or veiled. The silhouette of an IKEA chair is paired with a counterpart - its shape mirrored yet emptied within a larger field, and hung just out of reach. The word “who” is cut out and taped onto an MRI collage, while a companion ink painting consists of the residual, illegible marks that resulted from painting around the cut-out word. Echoes dart between works in this group, calling to mind the sense that everything is connected despite diverse appearances and surfaces.