My drawings invite viewers to consider connections to physical spaces they inhabit. Whether the urban landscape of a city or the private interior of a home, I choose not to draw the occupants, and with their absence I hope to encourage the viewer to not only imagine those not shown, but also to ruminate on correlations to their own personal environments. In my shadow drawings I draw particular attention to the malleability of our relationship to space, through even the continuously variable influence of light.

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My practice previously focused entirely on narrative-based portraiture. The shift in attention from people to places stemmed from an experience of loss. Following the death of my father, an architect, I used representations of physical structures to create external vessels to hold my immense feelings of grief. Building space and form through the layering of charcoal marks, I created tonal landscapes, rendering both my external and internal worlds. As the work progressed, I developed an increased interest in the interplay of presence and absence,  tangible and intangible intertwined. Loss gave me a new awareness of the imperceptible space between these dualities, which I aim to make visible through drawing.