Drawings

2007 -

Oil pastel on scraps of repurposed vinyl billboard advertisements.

My drawing centers on considerations of consciousness and intellectual perceptions of reality.

Mark and line have been radically stripped down to explore drawing as a marker of consciousness. I’m exploring thought and the formation of it via the movements and mark of the hand.  Often the drawings are explorations of shifts in psychologically inflected intellectual perceptual realities - such as taking hold of that moment when what one is visually seeing doesn’t change optically, but shifts mentally into another reality.

The drawings are made through alternately additive and subtractive processes – during the making of a  drawing I often alternately cut off sections of the paper with a knife in a similar working manner to marking with the graphite stick.

The stripped down and taut economy of form is especially central to the drawing - and to much of my work.