The practice of drawing remains a touchstone for all of my work. I think of working with intimate touch and active gesture and making in terms of hiding/revealing a surface as things that are rooted in what it means to draw: to make marks on something with something. I’m attracted to low-tech/diy ways of making - processes that let me get to the fundamentals of whatever i’m drawing with or on - that’s what drew me to paper-making and pinhole photography. These are simple/magical processes that can feel a little like alchemy, but whether i’m layering images in-camera or building a sculpture I still approach them with a drawer’s sensibilities.
This is a collection of one-offs that i’m still fond of, or pieces that haven’t yet come together into some kind of a cohesive project or series. I’ve never really been one to keep a sketchbook (they just wind up filled with notes about work anyway) so drawing, building mini installations and messing around in the darkroom has become my way of sketching out new ideas.
