Drawings

Blind Drawings, 2000

These one hour meditation drawings were made while using Continuum practice.  This method is a dynamic inquiry into the unfolding fluidity of our bodies through specific breathing techniques.   I used the Sip, Luna, and Hoo breaths to sense my own patterns of rhythm, and vibration.  Charcoal, ink, a twig and strands of hair were used for making marks.  I blindfolded myself so that I would be less involved with “constructing” a composition.   Fifty drawings were made.

Meditation Drawings, 2005

These drawings were made in a one hour time frame.  I went back and forth between meditating for 10 minutes,  and drawing or erasing continuously for the same amount of time.   Each  attempt to make marks was an endeavor to record a path of thought as it arose in my mind.  Words and imagery interchanged.  The distance between thought and the re-presentation was documented without success.

Public Signals,  2009

I have gathered ephemera from the streets of San Francisco for over fifteen years.  As a collection of data, these bits of matter are in a state between culture and nature.  In their condition, they carry what Walter Benjamin calls a “dream wish,” a thing which once had potential, but is now in a state of decomposition.  Creating various assemblages or not (some objects have their own special power) is a kind of drawing.