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Drawings in this series were informed by photos which caught various patterns of light on the surface of water. My interest in the Light and Space period poked through them early on when I began to think of this reflected light as a two-dimensional material shape.
In some drawings done on black paper, light patterns on the surface of receding waves suggest stellar formations, the nightscape of a city or aqueous sludge. These references were unanticipated while I focused on developing a new (to me) language of markmaking; replacing the sfumato of previous graphite drawings with nervous scratches and ticks; and using the opacity of gouache, watercolor, or Prismacolor pencils to convey the density of light and its luminosity against the black ground. The most recent drawings on black paper mark another switch in materials to charcoal and pastel, and a more graphic image and flat surface.
These drawings' formal qualities and compact size belie their multiple references. My hope is viewers are engaged by those references and the concept of light as a material shape.
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