These drawings are pure process. I start by marbling my own paper in the "Turkish stone" style, using acrylic. The colors and shapes produced are random and they dictate to me the images I will draw on them. I work directly in black ink, without planning, so any mistakes must be worked into the composition. The rules are that I must draw the first thing I see. To me it is like looking for shapes in clouds: I articulate what I see in the paper by outlining it in ink and annotating the shapes with pattern, light, and shadow. Grotesques are small surface frescoes within architecture, a capricious catalog of life, possessions, fairy tales, and monsters. Taking cues from this, my work confounds logical space and threads a narrative though uncanny juxtapositions.
