Statement

My drawings are made up of marks normally used to form a background, a value difference, a contrast or texture of some kind, subordinated to a larger drawing. In my work, those marks exist for their own sake; they tell their own stories.

One of the ideas I've explored in these drawings is the texture and meaning of patient, repetitive work and the perseverance that it requires. The formal elements I use are scale (large drawings, made up of innumerable small, repeated marks), and the shape of the marks, which varies from drawing to drawing, but not within the same drawing.

I'm also intrigued by how we experience time, building up incrementally to an experience which is then felt as one, in its entirety. An example is the contrast between the time it takes me to finish a drawing and the almost suddenness of my visual experience when I look at the completed piece. My drawings are the story of this exploration.

Much like the way the tiny moments of a day or a lifetime add up to a single, connected whole. And are thus, in the end, remembered.

Finally, I am most at home using pencil, charcoal, or pen and sumi ink on paper; I'm drawn to the expressive potential of black and gray marks on paper, and the huge variety in the anatomy of marks and lines created by a nib or a piece of charcoal. And although I appreciate color, I seem to be happiest weaving my visual narratives using the most limited palette of all...