Driven by concept and not beholden to a medium, over the years I have plunged into various ways of making; sculpture, installation, painting, video, photography, and drawing while reading, collecting, and writing has been my creative lifeline. I have strived for a practice that would tap into all these varied ways of making while remaining anchored in a concept that is authentic. This quest has begotten years of failures, flops, and fizzles. I would be remiss in not acknowledging the random moments of clarity that slowly burned off the fog of self-doubt. Without a strong dedication to my studio practice, yoga, and the unpadded encouragement of Geoffry and a small creative circle I have never would have plowed through it. I am deeply thankful that the fog has lifted, for now.
I make drawings.
Dissecting Drawing:
Drawing is direct and immediate…idea, paper, pencil. With a simple gesture an image forms, atmospheric context is present, and a story begins.
The paper is a stage, a platform to tell a story and, like photographs, my drawings are stills in motion. There was a moment before and there will be a moment after. The instant I am after is the spark, the inkling that something is about to happen.
My drawings flirt with narratives inspired by speculative fiction as they drift between nowhere and somewhere on the cusp of night and day teetering on calamity or stasis while being firmly rooted in a landscape vernacular.
This conceptual betweenness is tangible in the materiality of my recent work as I mash up sculpture, drawing, photography, writing, video, and installation.
Collecting:
Ideas, notions, theories, and questions
Parallel Worlds: A journey through creation, higher dimensions, and the future of cosmos
By Michicio Kaku
Cosmic Conversations: Dialogs on the nature of the universe and the search for reality
By Stephan Martin
Endless Universe: Beyond the big bang theory-rewriting cosmic history
By Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turk
Chromophobia by David Batchelor
Drawing Now: between the lines of Contemporary Art
A collection of essays from an online peer reviewed journal hosted by Loughborough University. The editors collectively call themselves TRACEY.
On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century
By Cornelia Butler and Catherine de Zegher
The Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury
Stuff
Rocks, minerals, crystals, and anything vermillion
Images
Explosions/ implosions, fireworks, and anything from Hubble
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