I work with graphite, charcoal, and paper because of their potential to create stark, barren, boundless landscapes. I repeat the grid. I balance the weight. I expose the schema. It is necessary to reveal the lines marking out the method of construction. I trace the origin through destruction.

My work is about architecture that implodes / explodes. Structures that are in tension. The My drawing practice is about control and latent violence; the exertion of control through the grid produces forces in opposition. These are forces that must eventually collapse. I’m interested in that moment just preceding the implosion: the split second when the nucleus is split, when the keystone of the construction no longer supports the balanced tension of the whole. I employ imagery of light, language, balance, grids, schemas, archetypes, proportion, and construction. I use a system of architectural forms and language to examine veiled origins and elusive histories. Tension derives from the appearance of stability and the reality of instability—the constant potentiality of collapse. The controlled artifice of the drawings belies the violence underlying their creation.

Lexicon: body / constellation of drawings, topology, infrastructure, annihilation, Nordic unfeeling, brutalism, constructivism, suprematism, burning, slicing, weight, balance, tension, ideal, formal, ignition. Repetition until degradation.