Marbled Drawings
#301 The Baby Factory, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 15 x 22 inches, 2025
#295 Whales, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 10 x 10 inches, 2025
#297 Hug, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2025
#269 Siphonophore Transiting the Panama Locks, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 2023
#44 The Zoo Spores will Repopulate Soon After the Apocalypse, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
The Marbled Drawings are pure process. I start by marbling my own paper in the Turkish stone style, using acrylic medium. The colors and shapes produced are random and they dictate to me the images I will draw on them. I work directly in ink, without planning, so any mistakes must be worked into the composition. The rules are that I must draw the first thing I see. To me it is like looking for shapes in clouds: I articulate what I see in the paper by outlining it in ink and annotating the shapes with pattern, light, and shadow. This work is informed by a rigorous and direct study of Italian grotesques, best documented by Alessandra Zamperini. Grotesques are small surface frescoes within architecture, a capricious catalog of life, possessions, fairy tales, and monsters. Taking cues from this, my work confounds logical space and threads a narrative though uncanny juxtapositions. In it I explore places where, as Kristeva observes, symbolic meaning collapses.
SOLD #91 American Bison Growing Poppies, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#33 Tree Hive, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#17 We Went So Fast Our Souls Fell Out, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
SOLD #78 Rolling Tracts of Land From the Straits of Mackinaw, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#86 Winning Hearts and Lips in the War Era, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#102 Colombia, Vultures Everywhere, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
SOLD #100 The Map Room, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#74 A Piece of Soul in The Yellow Balloon Escaping Velocity, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#60 The Elephant Train Out of Cypress, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#23 Come All Ye Annoying Little Children and Bring Tidings of the Mechanical Spirit, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#62 Bond #2, Ultraman forced to face the FireMaster, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#66 Bond #6, in Which Ultraman is Forced to Confront his more Feminine Side, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
SOLD #54 Lascaux or The Red Bison's Meeting with the Red Capped Mushroom Brigade, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
#40 Skull Screw, Stop at the Sign of the Hung Wolf, acrylic and pigment ink on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, 2016
There are over 300 unique images in the series.
The Marbled Prints are silkscreen editions based on these drawings.