Main Statement

My art explores how mark making, time, space, and the everyday can affect and redevelop each other. I work between mediums and dimensions to expand the concept of drawing to include installations, works on paper, and photography. Works are composed of marks that are signs of time and, referencing artist Avis Newman, thought. Daily life, observation, 

light and shadow movement, nature, architecture, and Eastern philosophy are influences. I work responsively in the space in-between these entities for greater reflection. 

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 evolved into an interest in the relationship between drawing and time. How is time experienced when mark making? Furthermore, Taoism informs my practice, as I aim to work from an even perspective. 

Current works use drawing as a tool to encourage mindfulness of and connection to my surroundings. New series explore how drawings can emerge from light and shadow interactions in my yard. In Backyard and Garden Shadow Happenings, sunlight is recorded as it moves in relation to plants over set increments of time. Timing the drawing activity allows for uninterrupted mark making and greater concentration on “being” while working (rather than “doing”). Marking the ephemeral encourages existing in the moment. It becomes a threshold to observe what is occurring all around. Drawings are then juxtaposed in wall installations to form dialogues with each other in a given space.

Walking Drawings extend concepts by recording light and shadow interplay upon nature and/or architecture while in motion. This body of work brings together interests unconventional drawing and mapping a sense of place. I engage in a responsive mark making process  while passing through the local landscape.

Resulting works are frameworks of consideration.

Satellite Statements on Current Series:

Backyard and Garden Shadow Happenings explore how drawings can emerge from light and shadow interactions in my yard.. In these series, I record and map sunlight as it moves in relation to plants over set increments of time. Rendering in intervals allows for full engagement in the mark making/drawing process and allows one to focus on “being” while working rather than “doing”. This allows for keen observation of the ephemeral. Works are then interlaced in wall installations to establish dialogues.

Sun and Site Drawings

These works on paper were inspired by shadow interactions upon architecture during the winter solstice. They explore how drawings can emerge from light and shadow interactions in the built environment. In this series, I document sunlight as it moves in relation to structures. A series of drawings emerge in which multiple perspectives overlap to question the quantum nature of time and form.

Walking Drawings

How can drawing merge with daily life to see and experience both in unusual and surprising ways?

In Walking Drawings (Under the Trees November), I engage in a responsive mark making process with my surroundings as I move through it. This activity encourages being fully present in the local environment. It brings together interests in unconventional methods of drawing and mapping a sense of place. Drawing this way encourages “being” rather than “doing”. Over time, this process awakens the senses to not only see what is around, but to feel and become immersed in the sounds and textures.

Recent works were created while on autumn nature walks. I recorded passing shadows and lines while under a canopy of trees. These drawings were then worked on in the studio from memories of the experience. 

I am also interested in how these works can be documented on site and how that can offer unusual ways of creating installations. 

Time Lines (Projections) Installation

The recent installation Time Lines (Projections) explores 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 were traced onto paper. 3D marks (made with dowels) are then interrelated with the 2D lines, creating a dialogue between dimensions and space. Works are then placed on the walls, floors, and corners of an environment to converse and see what happens next.

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 become.

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. 

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Rendering in intervals allows for full engagement in the mark making/drawing process and allows one to focus on “being” while working rather than “doing”. This allows for keener observation of the ephemeral and existing in the present moment.