My mixed media works are made from observed figure drawings that are altered into figurative motifs. Some remain alone revealing their individual architecture, while others are fitted together, showing the human form as an architecture of connection. These works are raw explorations of the figure without embellishment or idealization, and are abstracted to emphasize its essential elements by breaking it down into simple lines, shapes, and forms.
The isolated figures exist in a solitary moment, as individual forms carved out of space, while, like a ghostly overlay, the combined figures appear to be sharing the moment, despite existing at different points in time and space. Their forms inhabit and shape the space as if in response to one another, creating a powerful tension—the illusion of togetherness masking solitude.
The drawings are both on the surface and embedded within a work, adding a textured, sculptural quality. An intuitive lost and found process takes place between the media’s materiality and the drawn images. Multiple layers of paper collage, acrylic ink, graphite, and colored pencil are applied, sanded, and reapplied until the diverse elements are unified.