Works such as Span I - III draw directly on the gesture from en faisant. Through such works on paper, I rehearse the gesture as I develop larger in situ work, such as to go to | to seek.

Two collections of drawings that investigate one passage from Emile Zola’s Belly of Paris (1873). In the winter they also slept… and studies for innocents.

Through works on paper such as these energetic depictions of natural and manufactured forms in unexpected, spatially complex compositions—I investigate textures and methods of drawing as I develop larger in situ work, such as In time’s furrows.