Artist’s Statement
I am obsessed with mark-making. In these works on paper, the images can shift and switch meaning as the mind reads them as minikin and far-off or up-close and intimate.
I make marks.
My hand moves about the paper and finds relationships between objects.
I clarify distances, depths, shapes, and open spaces.
The eye finds and defines them: this horizon line, that ink splotch, that cloud, this leaf vein, that pebble, this hill, roads, the figure here.. Wait—maybe it’s not human? Maybe it’s an animal? Or perhaps it is a tree after all!
A single mark can say so many different and divergent things.
Making marks.
Making sense of mark-making.
It is endless.
It is timeless.
