These drawings are made through an iterative process of casting charcoal dust onto a glued surface. I work from a combination of photographs and memory, moving through a cyclical process of blowing, erasing, sweeping and repeating to test the theory that every minor action has a major consequence, and to understand this theory in terms of our relationship to the remote. Each drawing remembers larch forests in the Alps, titled after the songs which inspired them to evoke the sensation of being immersed in the landscape.

Trees

Clearing, charcoal on Fabriano 200gsm paper, 81 x 62 cm sold

Greens, silver thread and pigment on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 62 cm

It's Between (Me n U), charcoal, silver powder and graphite powder on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 62 cm

Footprints, charcoal on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 81 x 44 cm

Telallás, charcoal, flour and graphite powder on Fabriano 200 gsm paper, 113 x 76 cm sold

What if the hidden networks between trees were made visible and folded into public infrastructure?

Using hi-vis as a collective and directive language of awareness, this drawing stitches together the frictions of living with technology and longing to be in nature. It envisions a world where both exist, based on a photograph of California’s sequoias under snow. Reflective networks of threads come alive momentarily under light or flash to frame towering silhouettes of rubbed out redwoods - a landscape made visible at night, with light, or through your phone.

Networks

Website, pigment, graphite and reflective threads on Fabriano 200 gsm in black frame behind AR70 glass, 81 x 44 cm

In this ongoing series, I transcribe music into drawings. Each drawing records impressions of live music made at gigs with a ball-point pen, which I later scan and invert on Photoshop. The descriptions record the musicians, venue and date.

I was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms “(the ear tells the eye where to look)” to relate gesturally to sound, and note the collective attunement these musicians carve into space.

Music