On, Around and Through is a project about re-expressing elusive content to understand it better. The basis of this work involves inquiry, as well as an activity resembling field study, and a related framework of constraints through which I begin studio work.

The inquiry and the whole project ask: Does the process of translation, even when it fails to re-express something accurately in a different language, yield insight? In this project, I translate from film to textured drawing, from form to surface and from surface to image. Also from idea to activity, and from conditional framework to aesthetic instinct.

In the field study behind this work I record patterns from short films of figures in motion and interaction (not shown). In my studio, I re-express these records in a range of marks on prepared surfaces, which resolve into tactile drawings. These yield further work which I consider formally in terms of color, line and surface.

I work laterally on several pieces at once, in multiples which evolve from one grouping to the next. I work in mixed media using new, found and altered materials. I am drawn to all variety of paper, stacks and layers. The imagery and forms explore planar cross-sections, depth, color and texture.

There are many intersections at work here, among them converge creative practice, social science, philosophy, and play. In a sense, the work is simply an attempt to understand itself.