Imprints drawn
A collection of drawings stemming from two ongoing drawing series, TERRITORY and Landspeakers.
TERRITORY is inspired by the visual language of nighttime trail camera footage. These drawings explore subversive themes, particularly around human preferences when it comes to wildlife, both in the real world and representationally. Particularly where the animal and/or its environment seem to blend or disappear altogether, and even in the mediums used for these works, the act of drawing taps into the uncontrollable wild, championing the dark where single identity disappears and we become one with our environment.
Landspeakers considers the animal’s innate connection to the environment over time. The dual portraits are a calling to adaptation, a before and after. This series is about the umwelt, or sensory connection of an organism to its environment. This work is in part recognizing that animals have something that most humans desperately seek to consciously feel: an unshakable rootedness and presence to the moment.