Lineage: What I’m Reaching for
This work gathers what I’ve been learning for years.
Acrylic.
Ink.
Charcoal.
The camera. The lens.
Different ways of seeing.
Different ways of holding light.
I’m not trying to return to one medium.
I’m trying to bring them together.
The faces are not portraits in the usual sense.
They’re not one person.
They’re something quieter.
More archetypal.
Fragments of women.
Memory.
Strength.
Softness.
What remains.
I want to see what happens
when image, mark, and light begin to speak to each other.
Paper.
Ink.
Photograph.
And eventually, vellum.
Layers.
Nothing fixed too early.
Letting the work build
until something holds.
A quiet influence: E. J. Pratt, “Erosion”.
It took the sea a thousand years,
A thousand years to trace
The granite features of this cliff,
In crag and scarp and base.
It took the sea an hour one night,
An hour of storm to place
The sculpture of these granite seams
Upon a woman’s face.
