These drawings are an exploration of the relationship between time, memory and the transition from life to death - existence to nonexistence. Memories are an individual's recollection of a moment suspended in time. They preserve ones perceptions of a human being long after that person's death and allow one to "exist" beyond the limits of ones corporeal life. Memories, however, are fluid and exclusive to those who experience them.

Direct observation and memory are sources for abstraction of objective imagery in the mind. My work is built on figurative elements and uses positive and negative shapes to create volume and space. I use my hands to blend, tear, scrape and rub the paper. The subtle alternation of aggressive and passive textures encourages the viewer to pause over the images and deconstruct their meaning. During The process of deconstruction the forms are dissolved and become abstracted figures.

I use negative space to create a powerful interchange between the positive and the negative. The figures are simultaneously free and entangled with each other and the space that surrounds them. The use of my hands and body alludes to the passage of time, impression, intimacy and loss. The moments and impressions recorded and created with these works can never be recreated. The moment in which they were created has passed yet the image, impression and record of the action remains encapsulated in the work like a memory encapsulated in the mind.

Through these works I resurrect a memory to be experienced directly by the viewer. By putting them down on paper, these memories are both retained and released as remnants of the people and moments to which they refer. These moments are changed, diluted and distorted as time passes by the fluid nature of memory and in the act of being viewed.