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All works below are pastel on paper, approx. 20″x26″, shipping within US included. Message for inquiries.

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Recent work from Instagram

“The Procession.” I’ve been challenging myself to start with a limited palette and only add new colors when I absolutely can’t bear not to (which happens after approximately three minutes... but the challenge still takes me to interesting places). When I passed this apparently religious procession of flower-wreathed saguaros, I briefly considered a palette of celestial blues - but that felt too on the nose. So I decided to clothe them in May Day greens instead. I immediately regretted my choice - I tend to avoid high intensity greens in my saguaros, since they can land me in an amateurish, candy version of realism. I steered clear of this fate by following my bliss - the simple joy of drawing the long lines of saguaro ribs and small ovals of flowers, which I sprinkled generously throughout the sky. Following the logic of lines and circles, I deconstructed my prickly pears into ovals and my chollas into scattered stick figures. Much thanks to Kandinsky - I’m currently reading a book about him, and I’ve been inspired by the way he can turn a simple shape into a full-blown character, with its own energy, gravity, and mood - and the way all those characters sing and dance together. I decided to steal @innarohr's idea to make figure drawings on big scrolls of paper! It's a wonderfully tactile and embodied process - I was lying on the floor on top of the paper for some of it, unrolling as I went, almost living inside the drawing. It felt a little bit like dancing. I spend too much time inside another kind of infinite scroll - trapped in a tiny phone-rectangle masquerading as an endless world - and it felt liberating to make this scroll human-sized, someplace with room for artist and viewer to stretch in without disappearing. Happening now till 7 pm at @tucsonfolkfest ! Booth 16. Newly framed drawings for tomorrow’s Tucson Folk Festival! (Tomorrow 12-7, Sunday 11:30-7. I may stick around 7-9:30 pm tomorrow and 7-8:30 pm - safest to message me if you’d like to drop by then. Note that I won’t be there tonight.) It’s Arizona’s largest free music festival - I’d be there for the music if I wasn’t already there to show my art! 😁 @tucsonfolkfest “Brittlebush & Friends.” Never expected to want to draw little flowers petal by petal, but spring usually makes me go a little crazy with flowerlust, and the brittlebush stole my heart. As far as I can tell, Tucson has two distinct springs. First is the wildflower spring, heralded by seas of yellow brittlebush blossoms floating on almost invisible stems over almost perfectly spherical bushes of silver leaves. This is when I made this drawing. And now we’re in spring #2: palo verde and cactus blossom season. Maybe someday I’ll learn not to cling to the fading flowers and to welcome the ones that inevitably follow. "The Illusion of Self." I was mesmerized by this prickly pear, one pad casting a shadow on another like a mental representation of the self, leaf shadows like sleeve tattoos. I play a perceptual game where I focus on three or four areoles (that's the spots where the spines attach) per pad and make faces out of them (eyes, nose, optional mouth). I really see the face, its personality - but of course, the choice is arbitrary and many faces are hidden inside a single pad. Is my self-image just the same? I tried to suggest as much in the drawing. Come see me at the opening tomorrow! Sharing wall space with brilliant artist friends at @untitledgallerytucson Tucson announcement post! I'm taking part in events on each of the next three weekends.(!) "The Hug (Dissolution Diptych)." Same dead saguaro as my recent post, made to occasional whiffs of decay when the wind picked up. Hyman Bloom's art is always on my mind for this kind of subject (see attached fragment of "The Anatomist"), but this time I was also inspired and encouraged by the pre-Raphaelites' extravagantly detailed plant renditions (see John Everett Millais's "Ophelia.") I decided to make this a (lopsided) diptych after a delightfully generative figure drawing session at Untitled Gallery, which saw me lying on the ground and extending my drawing across two pages of a pad.

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