Surface Pressure

This body of work explores the intersection of climate and abstraction and draws on philosopher Jane Bennett’s idea that matter shows “resistance, the force of life, and even a kind of will.” The forms create a tension between sky and ground planes, in a moment of anticipation between reach and weight, Air becomes a medium of image, context, and suspense, the bewilderingly element that so delicately holds the space between any form and the wider world. In the series Horizon Object, I am drawing Romantic skyscapes in graphite pencil on slabs of alabaster from the Mojave desert. The object conflates the below and above planes that encompass life on Earth. Strung from a wire, embedded with geologic time and weight, the rock support makes the image of sky feel impossibly heavy, both ready to crash to the ground at any minute or turn in a breath of air. Touched Day documents the objects I’ve reached for, and held in my hand, and let go over the course of a day. Grapes, meat, velvet, mulch, tools, chemicals, cleaners, a silver spoon and plastic scrubbers, the ever present creep of cords, batteries and digital devices, the wild diversity of a typical encounter with the physical world and my ostensibly inanimate surroundings. Everything is photographed in the air, entropy looms, and the blue print suggests an ominously submerged final resting state.