Rooting her work in geometry, Keobounpheng draws connections between the living, experienced world and measurable natural order. Looking beyond the human systems that we impose upon life; she uses a visual language to imagine an existence that celebrates interconnected complexity and expansive diversity.

FOUNDATION no8, her largest scale work to date, is built on a foundational pattern of five-foot diameter circles. From this, two predominant patterns emerge: one of repeating layered marquise shapes and the other of winding, traversing lines. Visually, she grounds the work in the most basic geometric foundation while channeling the underlying energy and potential to the surface.

This enormous work is about holding the space between wild conceptual imagination and the intensely physical reality of coloring 200 square feet entirely by hand with colored pencil. Imperfections are left visible as a testament to the intense hand–body–mind work of reprogramming learned behavior patterns.