About

I’m an artist living in Washington, DC.

I mostly work with graphite pencil on paper.

Each drawing is completed in one sitting. I don’t start with an end in mind. I don’t use reference materials like pictures, models, or still-life.

There is a hegemony of form that we humans are bound to. We see so many of the things we see that, ultimately, those things are the only things we are able to see. Even the dullest of human swirling a stick in the dirt will find some meaning in the mess. They’ll see a sun, a house, a cow, a face, a car… a something. In that moment of recognition the dullard suddenly becomes bound to whatever image their mind has rendered and they must forever square with that image.

To a lonely shepherd a group of lights in the night sky becomes an archer. That archer now made a form for eternity. No abstraction is safe from the human eye.

So that’s what I do. I swirl dirt and stare at stars until the weight of the familiar becomes too great to ignore. Then I spar with it until something novel remains.

I hope you enjoy.