My sense is that art should be showing you something you have not seen
before: widening your circle of reference, making new connections or opening up
more possibilities.
These drawings are often moments in an implied narrative, at a point of decision or action with the detail of how we got there, or how events may unfold thereafter, free to work in the viewer’s imagination. The implication may also be spatial: what is happening beyond the edge of the drawing?
Accordingly, the work is rarely programmatic, illustrating a
previously defined circumstance. The
obvious exceptions to this are the collections associated with texts, driven by
them either in alignment, as in An Alphabet for Alina, or implying an
alternative narrative, as in King Saturn’s Book.
Most of the work is pen and ink, mostly on A3 paper with some work on A2 and some A4.