Please CLICK HERE to sign a petition to help save the Visual Arts Department at Emory University! Emory is planning to close the much beloved and respected arts program to make way for new ones. If this happens it would be a travesty. The art program at Emory change the trajectory of my life by inspiring me to become an artist. Please help to keep this program alive!!! My work engages the space where my experiences merge with the unknown. Findings is a new body work that began in April 2009. Before I started this new undertaking I concluded two important bodies of work. The first was called Drawing Correspondence, a collaboration with artist Paul Rodecker. This mixed-media mail-art project used two identical journals as a way to communicate through marks and imagery. The second was a series of works on paper where I used both hands simultaneously to draw. This binary approach to mark making was a response to working with sound recordings and a way to incorporate a more physical and visceral expression of line and composition in my work. In the work for Findings I build the composition in sections cut from larger pieces of paper placed over the drawing. The cut shapes create a window through which only a certain portion of the drawing is visible. I work inside the window until I believe that the section is resolved and then I move the cut shape to a different part of the drawing and begin again. I repeat these steps until I feel the drawing is finished. The drawings that result from this process have no definite visual thought pattern; instead they sway between recognizable parts and improbable landscapes. Looking at these works I am taken on a journey. One that hurries, slams, turns, and halts in a reverse upside down confusion whose order lurks in the steady rhythm of its seeking.   Ink on paper 18 x 24 inches Graphite on paper 48 x 45  inches