System

My work develops through repetition, rotation, instinct, and close attention.

I usually begin without a predetermined image. I build an initial structure quickly, then continually rotate the work and respond to it from different orientations. Each pass changes what I see in the previous one. Forms begin to emerge from gestures, figures appear inside other figures, and marks start carrying several possibilities at once.

I move between instinct and intervention—allowing the drawing to suggest its own direction, then pushing certain images forward without completely resolving everything around them.

As the work develops, I become increasingly focused on small changes in line, texture, weight, rhythm, color, and the relationships between forms. A mark may belong to several images depending on how the work is held or viewed. I’m interested in preserving that instability rather than forcing the work into one fixed reading.

The process can become intensely perceptual. After spending enough time inside a drawing, what initially appeared accidental begins to feel inevitable. I start seeing relationships that weren’t consciously planned, and the work becomes a negotiation between what I intended, what appeared on its own, and what I decide to keep.

I work across changing materials and processes because experimentation is central to the practice. I want to see what remains consistent when the tools change and what unfamiliar materials can pull out of me that familiar ones cannot.

Because of that experimentation, I do not make a blanket claim of long-term archival permanence for every work. Materials, processes, and protective finishes are documented when applicable, but some combinations have not been tested over generations and may naturally change with time, handling, light, or environment.

I don’t necessarily see that possibility as separate from the work. I’m interested in marks accumulating history, objects being lived with, and images changing through repeated viewing.

These works are made to be looked at for a long time—and from more than one direction.