01
Face to Face
Two profiles, each a separate platter. An encounter shaped by the space between them.
nowthing
An ongoing conceptual practice exploring the relationships between objects, space, time and perception.
pause
The space between things — the present, the interval, what is temporarily held.
imprint
What remains — objects and gestures as traces of an action, encounter or passage of time.
edge
The point where one condition meets another — boundaries, contradictions and shifts in perception.
selected studies
02
Two Rights Don’t Make a Right
A study of opposition, completion and the assumption that repetition produces resolution.
03
Time / Calendar Year Visualization
An attempt to draw the shape of a year from memory revealed that time was being navigated spatially rather than chronologically. The exercise expanded to others, each producing a different internal geography of the same twelve months.
04
Horizon / Now
The present considered as a boundary between what has passed and what has yet to arrive.
writing
The Shape of a Year
What shape does a year have in your mind?
While trying to place a memory within a particular year, I became aware that I wasn't moving through a conventional calendar in my mind. The months occupied positions. The year had a shape.
I drew it, then began asking other people to draw theirs. The same twelve months produced completely different forms.
read essaySequence
We rarely arrive at anything instantly. There is usually an approach.
A street before a building. A corridor before a room. A pause before a conversation.
These intervals can seem secondary because they aren't the destination. But often they are part of what gives the destination meaning.
read essayAn ongoing body of studies, taking shape through drawing, writing, object, installation or space. Some may become physical works; others may remain ideas.
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