In the Axis series, recollection pivots around vivid, etched markers of moments, days, events—an axis of reference points. The work’s surfaces are integral to this exploration—the process of building layers through pixelation and deconstructing through sanding and scraping creates sharp focus alongside imprecision. Axis includes a constellation of 50 sculpted piecesand separate six-foot pieces, all of sculpted aluminum and plexiglass in the shape of X.The exhibition also includes Crossing Lines, drawing on the literal and figurative uses of the word “line”—bloodlines, headlines, lines of civic boundaries and individual identity, and lines emotional, spiritual and physical; Confluence, exploring the potential for abstraction to meaningfully engage memory through fluid surfaces that interrelate with imperfections of recollection; Convex, examining pathways and repetition that create patterns and cycles of memories—ones lost and found; Strata, an ongoing series that began as a series of chants stripped of imagery in the deafening silence after the Twin Towers went down, and reflects a diary chronicling the layering of days; and Vessels, gentle arcs that create a space for reflection, contemplation, healing—thought, time and memory come together as a fluid collective.Hester’s practice is process-driven, building surfaces through the relationship of unpremeditated actions in repetitive patterns of drips, hand-drawn grids, fragmented shapes, unfound imagery, layering and deconstruction to create a visual image where the arbitrary and systematic are at play.‍