The ordinary yet delicate nature of my drawing materials underscore the unsettling images and
important ideas they describe. Flour, ash, graphite and chalk mix into fragile dusty surfaces that
show the trace elements we leave behind when subject to catastrophe, or displacement, the
initial moment as things begin to move or take flight. My images have two significant threads: the consequence of identity, its’ location, and the way
memory and history are forged from everyday moments.
The fleeting nature of my powder media, one brush against the paper and the image I draw
with only one fingertip, vanishes. We are reminded how quickly the lessons of history can be forgotten.

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