My focus for the last 3 years has been in drawing. My work in this area has always been interested in pushing the materials, the surfaces and my mark. I love that drawing is the visual result of a physical action. I use this basic idea as the premise to forge a dialogue between the implement in my hand and the paper. The accumulation of these lines and textures reveals a map of movement.
The Findings Series does not have a defined visual subject or reference in the traditional sense. Rather I am looking into the paper and the sketch of a loose unresolved pattern to trigger the growth of a civilization of patterns and forms. I have implemented a Window Technique whereby I cover up the drawing so I can only work inside one small window or area at a time. This allows my full attention to focus on one part of the drawing and disregard the rest of the surface. I repeat this process by moving the window to different locations on the paper and alternating the shapes and sizes of the cut out window. The drawing is finished when the different moments in the work become connected and absorbed by each other, a completed network of events.
Maps are unique in that they are both one visual representation of a place and at the same time they are the linear evidence of the many ways one may journey through it. These drawings aim at removing the viewer from a fixed place and transporting them to a world that will begin inside the drawing but will find a destination in their imagination.
