This work addresses drawing, painting, writing and speaking, using what I am calling writing or “ecriture” to explore memory, contemplation/prayer, language, and poetry to convey my love for and, at times, frustration with all of these territories. These “writings” appear at first to be asemic in that they are not legible, yet the structures of these works do in fact express an intention to communicate. They speak as repositories for acts of devotion, meditation, and acts of frustration. They are the speech space in which I “say” that which I have not yet found the words or the language to express as speech sound or poetry. This “writing” is visual language that is other than literary.

Martin Heidegger’s discussion of language influences the work and the works find a location both in poetry and art making—a speech space—wherein these works are made visible.

 

I seek to understand through this mode of writing-into-painting, that is, this mode of the hand marking a surface to record without speaking. For me this mode of drawing and painting explores the cadences of poetry and prose, and, the repetitions of ritual and devotion.

 

I endeavor to create a quality in the work I hope, that reveals something about the rhythm and profundity of one’s inner life and voice and a vision, a hope, that is found in the work. A hope that is a looking, a looking for as well as a finding. The feeling of moving from one place or state of being or mind to another; and in that movement, that transition which perhaps no one can see in me, is instead on the page or leaf of paper.