Research Catalogue

I am in a constant search for possibilities in phenomena that pass across and within my senses. Through drawing, I have been able to achieve the kind of marks that are organic and reveal underlying emotions of our thoughts and ideas. Drawing to me is an organic process and my drawings are an attempt at wholeness; an orison towards assigning marks and generating form for the formless.

Drawing allows me to reflect on ideas that lend themselves to deep introspection. I journey into spaces through speculatio (contemplative reflection) in an attempt to comprehend natures within my being to which I would otherwise not be privy. My works are reflections on ideas situated at the intersection of religion, sexuality, and consciousness.

I layer my essential understandings of various events to create complex wholes as a means of learning. “Layering” is a metaphor for encapsulating fragments and wholes that convey power, compassion, and the memory of time & culture. I use color as discrete units of energy in an attempt to portray an ineffable, archetypal numinosity. The body and its dynamics plays a significant role in my mark making. Through an ongoing practice of Shodō 書道, I have been able to incorporate an understanding of line from the study of Kana, Rinsho and Tenkoku.

I desire to know things that move me — an innate urge to penetrate a thought through drawing, seeking the trajectories and correspondences the mind makes with "memories" while drawing from within the body and its dynamic. My concerns range from the fictional to diaphanous notions as in the epiphanic, the euphonious, expressing ineffabilities by pursuing the stirrings one cannot place, yet are real and palpable. The realizations are drawings.

My drawing supports vary from paper, wood panels, books, to mica. Recent works are wide-ranging: Obmutescent Torture-scapes (a book of thirty drawings on torture); works on the theme We do not come by our Thoughts; They come to us; drawing letterforms and other subjects, while glimpsing, gleaning and assigning meaning to the works in the manner approached and through the act and dynamic of drawing.