Rini Circles

Rini Circles is a series of circular works made in relation to memory, grief, and perception. Created with the artist’s sister in mind, the works use dense fields of colored dots to create an image that shifts depending on the viewer’s distance from it. Up close, the surface remains insistently abstract: a vibrating accumulation of circles, overlaps, color relationships, and optical interference. From farther away, the image begins to cohere, suggesting something more familiar, almost recognizable, without fully resolving. The circular format gives the work a sense of containment, completeness, and closure, while the dot structure resists fixed meaning. Like Leder’s LED works, the series is concerned with how perception is constructed: how the eye organizes fragments into pattern, how distance changes meaning, and how an image can move between abstraction and recognition. The work holds this tension quietly, using simple forms and color to create a perceptual field that feels both playful and elegiac.