Drawings made with the fine point of a mechanical pencil to build a scrim of marks—countless lines woven to amass bold, block text situated in dense fields of graphite or nestled amongst patterns inspired by fin de siecle wallpaper design. Drawings often take the form of palimpsest, undergoing multiple passes of mark-making and erasure, building layers of text (legible and illegible) intermingled with ornamentation. This laborious, often meditative process marks the passage of time with a trail of physical traces, smudges, and scribbles.

Scribbled notes and redacted words lurk beneath the legible surface. Flourishes and decadent patterns meld softly in their scribble, running like watercolor, evaporating at the edges. Language runs as fluidly, with gaps and starts and murmurs slipping in and out of meaning that ravels and unravels and bends and winks and fades to informe….