The intersection between and disassociation of artifact and art, the making of tomorrow’s artifacts, and the temporary verses permanent character of what we make intrigues me.

My “sculptural drawings” extend drawing from surface and wall into physical space, turning materials that come with purposes and meanings outside of artistic expression into art that relays loose forms of story.

I see drawing as an analytic process that translates objects real or imagined to surfaces as marks that come together into interpretations of objects and into new objects - the drawings - in themselves. Observing that a normal drawing material like graphite or paint as a particle or substance is a touchable object itself, yet not one necessarily viewed of itself beyond utility for drawing, I began turning physical toss aways like plastic grocery bags with a prior functional identity and purpose that has been reduced or degenerated into narrative object drawings that are completed by transitory light and the alterable arrangement in which the objects are located when hung at different physical sites.

Using identifiable discards encourages pausing, contemplating and confronting what it means to be accounted for, present and acted upon by the passage of time and culpability over what often gets tossed away, physically and metaphorically.

As a thing may support more than one story, each hanging of the object drawings by me is a retelling, losing, holding onto and gaining like the oral tradition of story telling. In a continuing migration, I also incorporate digital transparencies of the sculptural drawings into later sculptural drawings at new physical sites. … Read More