Before I began this series of digital drawings, I had spent a substantial period of time working on collagraph prints that spoke the language of painting, and also looking at cartographic spaces – lands shaped and eroded by winds, raked by sweeping waves, where mist diffuses the light.
Through drawing, I continued to work on these strange natural lands, however, I sought to further merge together states and qualities of the natural elements: the physicality of the land, the fluidity of the water, the volatility of the atmosphere. I drew both from life and from imagination. Working in black and white allowed me to focus more on value and avoid the complications and challenges that color sometimes brings to the composition.
In this digital series, I was chasing the moments which occur in the ever-altering states in the landscape, where a certain disquiet fosters ambivalence in those moments of transformation. I worked between impression and expression.
From a few of the drawings in this series, I also made time lapse videos. The animations are a record of the process of making, of drawing and of thinking. There, the individual method is captured in all its hesitations, failures and courageous attempts. As I draw and struggle with the empty page, I am always hoping that by some velocious flight my hand can bring a thrill to the bareness of the paper.