A mark; a slow traveller; a living object; a random,

chaotic grower; a question that solves with other

questions; a contradiction that keeps on finding

materials

marking

doodles

drawing

dance

notes

narrating

nothing as everything

investigating

possibilities

people

pictures

imagine

ephemeral

experiences

email

gestures

growing

grounds

hiking

light

listing

feeling

unknown

form

assemblage

asking

audience

alphabet

structure

swimming

spaces

studying

something else, something more, something less, something not, something beyond?

together

trees

tooling

tones

thinking

textures

water

walking

writing

colours

conversing

communities

I enjoy chance encounters with objects and phenomena. On walks and bike rides, my eyes forget (edit) what they may fall upon as they listen to the atmosphere at the periphery.

The encountered expands with material possibilities, existing within impressed dimensions; speaking with gestures; and telling stories as they travel with/out distance.

These experiences formulate my questions; they teach me how to receive images (imagine) and how to form images.

I think of my work as sketches drawn from the presence of time and the performance of objects connected with the encountered via marks.

These marks slip into scalable spaces, revealing the power and generosity of these objects/phenomena. They act as activation points (ryhthm) that deepen connection with space as their questions specify thoughts/areas of interest due to the expansive nature of space. Material investigations give these notes/observations/questions form; they identify rules at the moment of their breaking. For example, rust asks to be ambivalent about the movement of metal – a found piece of steel pipe can seem to grow the skin of a tree log. Sometimes, wires branch from wood; wood behaves as clay; metal curves with flesh.

I am drawn to the delicacy of their gestures in their natural habitat, learning with the language they speak and the anatomy of the bodies they build.

The texture of fallen leaves imprinted upon a concrete pavement imagine the place that stays as it goes. These temporal, site-specific spaces appreciate the ephemeral aspect of a shared experience and expand what ephemerality can encapsulate.