on drawing


06.06 [revised 09.06]

the process of drawing engages every
component of the human nervous system.
it is responsive, descriptive, and adaptive;
capable of accommodating, documenting,
and weathering history’s most radical
paradigm shifts. drawing mediates
the raw material of sensation and telegraphs
its by-products in code. the mark establishes
a literal and metaphoric distance which
implicates the whole as irrevocable—
a subjective space composed of “gaps”
whose fractions proliferate as systems
of belief and disbelief.

i have embarked on a drawing program
which encourages and facilitates evolutionary
thinking. using technical materials whose
original purposes are now outdated or
obsolete, my work illuminates, inverts
and skews certain received notions of
authenticity, artistic skill, self expression,
and meaning by opening up unexpected
vistas for those willing to traverse
the unfamiliar without a guide.

my work gives shape to certain non-
retinal realities; to that which normally
goes unseen. it insinuates a “delay”
in the perceptual filters we use to
organize and make sense of the world.

it is evidence of having had the will
to work, to make, and to see.