I suppose walking paths has always been my thing. Drawing, as it were – making lines on surfaces. But the line is never the thing. It is the making of the line. I guess movement is my thing—it’s the not-knowing where the line will go. We have some control over the movement of the line, but the surface is determined… Read More »My Shadow, Disguised as a Mountain
the paradoxes of the past month – this and that, ups and downs, vignettes and noticings, restarts and failures, lightness and dark, peaks and valleys, despair and hope, love and hatred, seen and unseen, shadow and more-shadow, heartbreak/awake.
I’m pulling drawings out of storage and preparing for an upcoming project, and I realized I didn’t have a good photo of this piece—a crumpled paper drawing that’s 120″ long. For good reason: I had to clear half the studio to get it up, find a workable camera angle, and contend with a stubborn beam in the upper left corner.… Read More »working it out
Eat This Scroll (for breakfast) is a video work I made on January 4, 2026. The work unfolds through a simple sequence of actions: written words are crumpled, tossed toward a pail, burned to ash, mixed with water, eaten, and then used as a drawing medium. The meaning and medium are filtered and consumed, back into the means of mark-making.… Read More »Eat This Scroll (for breakfast)
It’s January 1, 2026. As I write this, I am 48 years old. I have yet discovered so little. I’m walking the same paths daily, with some new terrain. The landscapes change, but the daily walk is unchanged. Or rather paradoxically, newness is always inherent. Striving, ever-seeking, a chase after self-renewing meaning, that shimmering weave on the loom of the world. I too… Read More »New Year, Ever-Seeking
When I was in college, we went out to a local bar that had karaoke. I had never done it. My roommate put in for Around the Way by LL Cool J, and dragged me up on stage to do it with him. There were so many reasons to not do this: Neither of us really knew the lyrics. White… Read More »Gratitude for Karaoke