Art making is a conversation I engage in with materials, ideas and subject matter. Different media speak different languages, enable and limit different kinds of expression, and invoke different histories. I use earth-bound, messy materials: clay, charcoal, graphite, ink, paper, and canvas, media that hold touch. Faces, houses, trees, organic forms all draw me, as do the minute, the ordinary, and the forgotten. I am interested in time, history, and layers of experience; the subtle emergence of ancient beliefs and practices, the forms our history has created within which we still live, rhythm and repetition, maps and calendars.

In permaculture, there is an idea that you start making change, slowly, at your back step - with what is in reach, under your feet. Close to home. Time is one of those things. We race time, spend time, “waste” time, kill time. Art making also involves shifts in time - the time it takes to make, the time in and of the image, the viewers time. I am interested in the ways in which medium and scale enable me to explore and talk about how we meet one another in and through time.

I have been exploring this by drawing from short videos, and creating short, fast drawings which I refine and clarify in subsequent iterations. These drawings are governed relatively tightly by a timer - 1 minute drawing, 2 minutes - with the ultimate goal of communicating the way the body moves through time, and time through the body.