My drawings are the result of many months of walking, exploring, photographing and filming the landscape of an area I am researching for the development of each of my River Fugues projects. Much like an archaeologist or geologist, I may search for clues to the history of a river, a people, or a place in the enigmatic remnants of their past. While researching Red Hook Harbor Soundings, I became intrigued with the fragmented remains of infrastructure and industry emerging from the Red Hook harbor where the tidal waters of both the Hudson and East Rivers alternately reveal and then conceal the histories of these ruins. Similarly, walks along the Ashokan Reservoir evoke wonderings of the submerged towns, their memories now held silently in the surrounding mountains. Hikes through desert landscapes in New Mexico and Wyoming, wanderings along the Cao Gong River in the ancient water town of Zhujiajiao, China, and hushed ventures through abandoned steel mills in Cleveland all led to drawings which are often acknowledging loss, paying homage to the defiant traces of a people, their lives embedded in a place - in a landscape – literally, metaphorically, or metaphysically.
Death and Transfiguration, 2023-2024
Death and Transfiguration is a series of works created as an homage to a painted turtle I found who didn’t make it safely across a mountain road. Recalling the turtle’s important role in Native American creation stories, I sought to honor and transform this turtle’s violent departure through drawings. Departing - Fearlessly Buoyant is the last in this series. (2023-2024)
VIEWS OF THE HUDSON/ SEEING PURPLE, 2023
VIEWS OF THE HUDSON/ SEEING PURPLE is a series of works-on-paper exploring my distorted sense of color after cataract surgery in one eye.
Maine Drawings, 2023
Drawing Through 2020
Night Views From A Puddle – 2nd Ave, 2020
Views From A Puddle, 2019
Under Mt. Lake, 2019
Georgia Drawings, 2018
New Mexico Drawings, 2017
RED HOOK HARBOR SOUNDINGS, 2015
Kentler International Drawing Space — Red Hook Brooklyn, NY
Zhujiajiao Soundings, 2014
WYOMING RIVER FUGUES, 2011-12
Drawings and Digital Prints
Ashokan Fugues, 2010
Cuyahoga Drawing, 2003
Dead Blast Furnace – 2003, Watercolor and color pencil on paper, 22” x 30”
Photo Credits: Paul Takeuchi