“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back, the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains. “

— Rebecca Solnit, ‘Wanderlust: A History of Walking’

In many cultural mythologies, the concept of a “creation space” is expressed as an ambiguous event out of which perception expands and cultures are born, the outcome often unpredictable yet inherently full of hope. I feel deeply the importance of pointing to that space - which is at once ordered and chaotic, controlled and serendipitous - as a positive place of creative potential and possibility.

My aim is for the drawings I am making to communicate perceptual spaciousness, movement and a visual fluidness through nuanced material tensions, form and contrasting mark-making.

I am attracted to the distinctive characteristics of the materials I use and to pairing these qualities with both organic and ordered mark-making. Forms oftentimes reference the environments where I am working and drawings emerge in a generative way, one element informing the next.

I gather information with my eyes and do further thinking with my hands. My approach to drawing and to making in general is exploratory, existential and holistic.