Drawing Archive Statement
Observing the evidence of animal’s adaptive evolution is for me a giddy experience. I am fascinated by the relationship of form and function in nature and the astonishing variety and specificity of forms that marriage produces. Drawing is my way of exploring the things that interest me. With each mark, I am concerned with creating form, and also with the abstract quality of the mark on the paper. I am building and destroying form through the act of mark making, sometimes with charcoal and pencil, other times with the cloth or eraser. My images develop out of an intuitive process much like the adaptive give and take of evolution. The drawings are a record of my struggle to understand these animal forms, but they are also a celebration of my delight in the texture, pattern, and behavior of these creatures.