Artist Statement

My work explores the intersection of drawing and dimension, and seeks to transform works on paper, sketches, and drawings into new modes of presentation that investigate the physicality of drawing, using contemporary, abstract, or non-traditional subject matter.

Using the daily ritual approach, my drawing practice is rooted in the active process of engagement with my fear and neurosis through an intensive level of drawing. I transform the negative conditions that fuel the work, and the resultant nebulous landscape encapsulates and vents this negativity. The day-by-day regularity of practice ties the work to regular treatments and self care rituals, the resultant emotions embedded in the work allows me to create a physical outlet through which I surpass my fear of disease and human frailty.

My drawing practice explores this uneasy relationship through frenetic graphic marks that elicit a repulsion/attraction response. These works are connected to my daily practice as a means of banishing morbidity and the phobic relationship I have to my body. The act of drawing has become a visual manifestation of the chaotic and unknowable conditions of the human body. This uneasy relationship to interior physicality is transformed into an imaginative voiding of forms. The rigorous process of drawing allows me to purge, transform and transcend these negative emotional states and elicits a feeling of catharsis.