Statement (Main) 
My art begins with the question "What is drawing?"  I work between mediums and dimensions to expand the concept of drawing that includes installation, works on paper, and photography. To further this investigation, I explore the relationship between mark making, time, and thinking to see how they can affect and redevelop each other.  Works are composed of marks that are signs of time and, referencing artist Avis Newman, thought. Observation, light and shadow, daily life, temporality, Martin Heidegger, and Eastern philosophy are influences. I work responsively in the space between all these entities. That is where experimentation happens and the medium opens to what it can be.


I am interested in an organic approach to drawing that moves fluidly between mediums and dimensions. This exchange creates a banter between the 2D, 3D, and disparate materials; all interacting to expand the medium by blurring conventional formal parameters. These dialogues often create unexpected rapports between drawing and its surroundings.  Concurrently, I am interested in how daily activities, like walking.  can influence how drawings form.


Newman's statement, “A mark is a sign of thought.”, informs my Art on many levels. As the hand or body makes a line across paper or space, what happens inside the mind? This has led to an interest in the relationship between drawing and time. How is time experienced when mark making?  Philosopher Martin Heidegger writes, "Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being." I question how drawing can factor into this dialogue. Taoism also informs and guides my practice. It encourages forming perspectives from an even place. 


Works grow out of light and shadow and in response to their surroundings. In Time Lines, Walking Drawings, and In the Garden series, I record shadows cast by the sun in relation to architecture, geometric forms, and nature. Light, when interacting with a building or 3D structure, turns into shapes that shift in form as it moves. This action or happening becomes an entry point into a drawing. Repeated tracings accumulate. In these works, marks are generic and nondescript, leaving them open for interpretation, as they suggest rather than show. Mark making allows one to explore a state of "being" when working, rather than “doing”.


Documenting shadow lines bridges the internal world of thought with the external happenings of my surroundings (and cosmos). Marking their movement leads me to experience the ephemeral and encourages keen observation and reflection. The static mark and image produced as a result contrasts and endures the temporal. Engagement in this practice over time leads to surprising microscopic and macrocosmic interconnections and alignments. Unexpected formal dialogues emerge from the process that piques curiosity to see what happens next. 


Resulting works are frameworks of consideration.


Current Series:


Time Lines: Drawing and Time


Time determines the outcomes of drawings. It affects the materials used, the thought processes experienced, and the form of works.


Time Lines works on paper and installations are composed of shadow lines that are traced in relation to shifting sunlight and architecture. Former tracings are also projected onto drawings. The resulting marks collectively map the sun’s movement and record the temporal.


Time measures the growth of works and the thought processes experienced. Drawing sessions are done in set parameters. These affect how many tracings will be made in a composition, determining its form. Rendering in intervals allows for full engagement in mark making and thinking without distraction. I question what happens inside the mind as the hand or body makes a line. How is time experienced when rendering? 


Surprising alignments bring about epiphanic moments of clarity.




Time Lines (Projections):

This ongoing installation explores the question "What is a drawing?" and how dimensionality, architectural space, and time can affect the development of a drawing and thinking. Shadows cast by the sun coming through a window (in relation to architecture) along with projections of shadows are traced onto paper. 3D marks (made with dowels) are then interrelated with the 2D lines, creating a dialogue between dimensions. Works are then placed on the walls, floors, and corners of a space to converse and see what happens next.





Drawing and Daily Life:

How can drawing merge with the everyday to see and experience both in unusual and surprising ways?


Walking Drawings
In Walking Drawings, I engage in a responsive mark making process to record surrounding phenomena. The activity encourages being fully present to one’s environment as one moves through it. I walk and draw during the in-between moments of a day. These include when running errands and taking nature walks after work or weekend. Walking Drawings (October) were during the autumn in a forest. The shadows, leaves, and trees seen in passing all informed the development of the works.


I am also interested in how this kind of drawing can be documented on site and how that can offer unusual ways of creating installations. The works presented were photographs as actual drawings on paper and digital images of works placed on site (with shadows, leaves, etc.)




Sight Drawings

Sight Drawings are drawings seen in passing. They may share formal qualities, like line, and tone, with traditional works, or stir the imagination for new ones to come. No interventions are made. They are images of what could be.


The Shadows and Shimmer in the City series focuses on the interplay of light and shadow, seen as marks, upon urban architecture and how drawings can develop out of this often overlooked, everyday occurrence. Photos are taken when driving or walking around the city. Sometimes I seek them out while other times they find me.


Under Currents: Installations

Much like Sight Drawings, current installations focus on temporality and the interplay of light and shadow upon architecture or geometric structures. They grow out of moments in time; when light enters a window or peeps through the slits in a wooden deck. Interventions are made with small scale geometric materials like cinderblocks to stir a drawing into being. Shifts in lighting and shadow are documented. The resulting static. digital images contrast the movement of light.  







Series:


Between 0 and 1:

“All things are continually interacting with each other, and in doing so each bears the traces of that with which it has interacted:...”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics


The works on paper, Between 0 and 1, explore the link between drawing, time, and thinking at the quantum level. In that micro-world, myriad interactions occur in matter between these small numeric values. Works are made by tracing sunlight as it shifts in relation to architecture over several weeks. The accumulation of lines become a record of the sun’s tracks; metaphors for the ephemeral nature thought. Their interweaving calls for further responsive mark making. Epiphanic moments of clarity emerge when seemingly random lines align and harmonize.


Past Series:

Progressions

How can dimensions and diverse media affect how a drawing develops? 


Progressions, Shuffling(s), and Reshufflings: Dialogue Between Dimensions:


The Progression(s) and Shuffling(s) series explore a dialogue between dimensions, media, and time to expand how to see and experience drawing. 


Conglomerate (Progressions) are photographs of geometric constructions built in relation to light and shadow. The term progressions alludes to successions of musical chords produced over time to stir harmonies. These constructions changed in form as sunlight shifted over the course of several hours on cement. Different stages of the activity were photographed and times are noted in the titles.


Installations/Conglomerates

Using ordinary construction materials such as tiles, shelves, and molding...works from the Conglomerate series (2007-ongoing) occupy a space between drawing, sculpture, and architecture... the elements 'interact in "states of tension and flow'." (Margaret Winslow).