DRAWING

ANIMATED DRAWING

Zebraship, 2018
This digital image was motivated by dazzle camouflage of ships, particularly using the zebra pattern.

PAINT ON GLASS

Birdhouse, 2016
A sandwich of glass and board with painted layers both beneath the glass and on top of it. The outline of the birdhouse is created by removing areas of paint on the glass which reveals the imagery on the layer beneath.

Coffee on MYLAR

Extinct, 2010
While in Argentina, I was in awe of the smell and sight of roasted beef and bone. I urgently wanted, even needed to communicate my experience. I had brought with me paper and a brush, but no paint. Espresso coffee – earthy, rich, many-hued – struck me as well suited to the sensuous richness of the imagery. Through these images, and this technique I am examining our perception of animals, and my growing dissonance with both the desire for and revulsion against the consumption of flesh.

PENCIL ON PAPER

Blenderman, 2014
As I draw lines and areas of tone onto a flat surface – paper or in the case of animation via a digital tablet – I think with my hand. My marks become art when they cease being just random strokes and become inseparable from the object and ground, and when the image – bold, simple, and full of energy – generates an emotion for me, or gives rise to a metaphor, or narrative. Using a minimum of gestures, I draw in order to capture the essence of my subject and what I perceive as its inner vitality.