Statement

I hate writing artist statements but given the recent changes in my work it's high time for a current one. So here we are: (skip down past the images)

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most
of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the
air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Writ large on the surfaces of urban space in thousands of ways is the tension between the organism of cities and the greatest hopes of their individual architects and residents.

I am moved by the ways cities don't work. Painting on a wall, I tease out the edges of nameable things, then suppress them in silhouette, or literally fence them in. Drawing quickly and voluminously with ink on small, heavy, and unevenly deckled pages resembling chipped paint, I seek to record, from as many vantage points as I can see and imagine, the hysteria, confusion, and loneliness arising from the confrontation between individuals and the overwhelming, unknowable structures of cities.