I enjoy process that is structured and open-ended. In much of my practice you will find examples of repetitive actions that accumulate with time, sometimes years, into meaningful points of engagement with the ideas I explore. Frequently, found objects are speculated over or incorporated. Sometimes they are also used as tools themselves. If there is one drawing, there are hundreds. If there is a stack of hundreds of drawings, they will be turned into dozens of songs using AI. Embracing randomness in search of meaningful coincidence can mean rolling the dice to choose a color or throwing a dart at a wall full of photos to determine which will be transformed into handmade cross-stitch over a period of years.
Below is a look at some of the processes involved in creating Love Letters (Small) and various of the states they are paused momentarily in.
Having completed hundreds of drawings in ink on tracing paper, it was a welcome surprise to find a $2000 3M laminating press being thrown out at the curb one day. Hours before the discovery, I had no idea that just minutes later I'd be wadding up the drawings and feeding them through a press. My process is developed to take advantage of the random inputs offered living in NYC where there are always many.
The individual works that constitute Love Letters (Small) go through various states such as being wadded up and run through a press, spray painted, and carefully pulled back open. Below are what some of the above looked like just days before.
