Drawings We Have Lived

2025
Organic pigment on Fabriano paper stretched on wooden frame
Varying dimensions

These works begin with the most primal of impulses: the act of leaving a mark. Mark-making is a space-creating exercise—a simple line drawn in the sand forms a boundary, which creates separation, in turn altering our perception—and when one mark follows another, an experience unfolds. In Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the author writes about the physical paths we walk upon as inner wanderings—our actions in life mirrored as drawings, each mark a unique experience, its entirety making up the blueprint of our lives. “Each one of us, then, should speak of his roads, his cross-roads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor's map of his lost fields and meadows…Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived. These drawings need not be exact. They need only to be tonalized on the mode of our inner space.” These works are not representations of something seen, but rather something lived—their outward abstraction not decorative but essential, as we filter our lives (as the Emotivists would agree) through emotions, inherently abstract. Each work is, like Bachelard suggests, the traces of our wanderings: a personal survey of our inner landscapes.