[bodies of work ON PAPER]
Coupling
The Golden Thread
Correspondences
Sentiments
Pocket Prayers for
Impossible Landscapes
The Red Door
Coupling
Threads stretch between bodies. Taut and tenuous. These works explore the dynamics of connection, the balance between union and autonomy. Watercolor moves like emotion: fluid, unpredictable, imprecise. Threadlike lines bind and divide, mirroring the labor of sustaining relatedness. A line stretches, pulling bodies together. Or apart. Captures the fragile balance of intimacy held against the risk of collapse. Coupling asks what we become by tethering to another.
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The Golden Thread
Fragments form a volatile map : part ruin, part revelation. A thread of gold attempts to bind what is broken, frayed, or forgotten. Repair and consolidation... are they acts of effort or surrender.
The process is polyvocal; a movement between voices, languages, source materials, and associative histories - as if navigating concurrent dimensions. Impulse (only) guides the spontaneous arrival of the image. Even in the making-process there is only one guiding truth: one cannot try to be surprised. And yet somehow surprise is the only truly thrilling quality of experience. Hence, the prevailing law of this method of listening: Do not try to do anything. Only follow.
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Correspondences
Some drawings arrive like dares from a childhood friend. At least, I think we were children then.
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Sentiments
These rapid sketches are evidentiary documents of “The Pages Practice”. They are created in response to a question provided by a partner in an attempt to communicate beyond rational logic or explanatory structures of language. Human intelligence is so often framed by coherence and inertial systems of meaning. In "The Pages Practice", the two people place before one another questions of utmost sincerity, confusion and importance. Each page arrives quickly, spontaneously, without strategy or expectation, and within the limit of 10 - 15 minutes.
When the analytical mind is fully at rest - the page reveals unprecedented insights.
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Pocket
Prayers for
Impossible
Landscapes
Sometimes prayer is a good friend, nudging you toward the almost, the impossible or the not-yet. Landscapes make the perfect spectral containers for such a gentle coaxing; a place to stock and sort through unarticulated longings. Prayer can be an act of quiet rebellion against the singularity of one’s own voice, one’s own company.
The mistake is in believing we are someone. We are not someone. We are some-many.
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The Red Door
The Red Door is a meeting place of longing, presence, absence and pursuit. It is a love affair with the monastery, as a state more than a place or calling. Cloisters stretch outward; corridors fold inward. At the center is the Red Door, glowing like a heartbeat. Elusive. Persistent. It beckons and retreats.
There is no solace in the pursuit itself. The Red Door is never attained. It is not an entry or exit to an already configured space. It has no knob. It has no hinges. It taunts with promises that cannot be tested.
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