These are experimental ink drawings inspired by duality: light and dark, condensed vs. empty space, and mundane vs. extraordinary. There are experiments with hierarchy, sometimes nonlinear time, and unedited mark making. Even paper’s fragility, within this process, suggests an impermanence of moments in time rendering a permanent mark, eventually… impermanent. The images are portraits of family members caught unaware of my gaze, and sometimes, imaginings of the supernatural, other times… nonsense conjured through stream of consciousness. These are personal icons made tangible through drawing, and installed to create a kind of alter piece. For me this is a way of paying tribute, in diaristic way… chronicling the love and wonder present insignicant moments. Formally, I love to make use of both positive and negative space…experimenting with when to use clarity or detail vs. emptiness or obscurity. The medium of ink adds the additional challenge of one opportunity to make a “perfect” mark without an ability to erase. For this reason, the process feels “live”…nothing can be edited. The drawings are recordings of (unltered) moments in time.

Location: Dempsey Family Gallery

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