I then continued drawing in search of movement. With a marker I would journey through my body and mark thresholds of shifting frames. As a child, I needed to move my body in order to negotiate the contradictions of expressing emotion and desire, with the circumstances of inhabiting time and space. Early on, drawing allowed me to explore the experience of being alive in a way that negated enough contemporary value systems for me to feel freedom. At the time, and unbeknownst of the nuanced ways a body is sculpted over decades by habits and tasks, I externalized the negotiation of gravity with tension, through exploring my internal landscapes: I hung; I had the permission to take time and to be emotive. Things opened. I could spend twenty minutes drawing over the same line for all two inches. Or, hanging the pencil ever so slightly atop the paper, swing- not just the pencil's tip, but my whole body. Through my shoulder, encountering the joint which allows for another shift, further, and eventually out of a single body parts isolation, towards my toes curling around an edge of a chair. The pencil became an extension of my skin, leaving a mark which would reflect touch as a visual imprint. Traveling through the body would come to be illuminated by the line, and the line became an afterthought to movement.

Following these explorations, embodiment has developed as a form of reference to relate to the world, to form meaning, and to challenge it. Over the past two years I have drawn what turned out to be maps of these internal landscapes. In these maps I chart series of gestures, topographies of the body in space, and impulse- within the concentration of the blank page. What has emerged has illuminated ways visual representations of space through the line and the body (two starting points of conceptualizing scale, distance, and architecture). Soon, I would like to transcribe this process into physical space as well as explore how the body can interpret these directions. So far what has worked is to dance.

Below are paintings (4x6") I made in 2005 followed by drawings (9x12") from 2024-2025.

Many of these works are available for purchase. I'm also happy to consider commissions. Please email me for more details.