My recent work, an ongoing body of drawings made with plaster on plaster grounds, evolved from my previous installations to embrace the potential of an empty plaster wall as a site for contemplation. Since 2018, I’ve been quietly making drawings with plaster inspired by old plaster walls. The substrate consists of a wood cradle with lathe and plaster construction similar to early 20th-century homes. Drawing with plaster, a material through which I speak fluently, is a constant for me—haptic and full of space, blue lines of lapis lazuli or snapped blue chalk lines are drawn as compositional references to uncertainty. 

Drawing with plaster, I carefully build the surface over a period of years. Slow time exposes the excavations and malleability of the drawing’s epidermis. The drawing exhales through swelling, cracking, and peeling like the flesh of architecture. This process helps me articulate the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture as one of construction, destruction, and restoration – where both reside as indeterminate and temporal bodies. The work intends to express a fluid, conceptual space for silence, subtlety, and sensitivity to perceptions. When one wonders, “Where am I?” symbolically or philosophically, my work offers a respite before returning to the speed of life with measured focus.