The Maine series of drawings are part of a series of works created during a SEARS residency in the fall of 2023, hosted by the Parsonage Gallery in Searsport, Maine. Arriving in Searsport, I set out with my GoPro camera suspended from a wire at the end of a bamboo pole and hung it off piers alongside other fishermen - only, to their amusement, I was fishing for images and not competing for whatever swam their way!
Another day I stopped along the road and purchased an old fishing net whose long and torn history exploring the waters was marked by careful white lines of stitching. Taking it back to the studio I dipped sections of it into acrylic ink and rolled out parts of its history onto my drawing paper. Reviewing my underwater GoPro footage, I drew and painted into the net so that this time, it was the fishing net that was "catching images". This torn and stitched fishing net found in Searsport, Maine, is catching images of a past embedded as it drifted under the ocean’s waters in the rising tides.
Maine Drawings, 2023
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.
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