Drawings 2001-3
In my drawings, my sculptor's interest in shadows becomes translated as silhouette. In the intimate world of the drawing a lens widens to encompass spaces much bigger than the small page--the silhouettes suggest large urban architectures against horizons of indeterminate depth. In the "Twilight"series, the shapes suggest bridges, highway underpasses, or doorways and windows as fragments of larger architectures. Through a window or a door, microcosms...
Drawings 2003-5
These drawings explore both skin and bone, and tell allegorical tales about the frailty of the body. Layered against a backdrop of Descartes’ diagram of “plenum”, the energy that powered the planets, are forms of heads, scaffolding, prosthetic supports and inky spills that delineate the boundaries between these forms. An interior breath seems to animate the forms in some places and to deflate or collapse them in others. The scaffolds attach...