Foreground Notes
Foreground Notes is a long-term research in the comprehension of nature through appearances: drawing, film and digital photography, video and digital imaging.
Culvert (Winter and Spring) 2008
Dans la Nature, l’Écriture
Each drawing sequence traces the linear contours and calligraphic markings of details routinely overlooked.Consecutive drawings record a syntax in seeing and marking.
Linesets: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper.
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
The natural world is noisy and chaotic, systematic yet open-ended, patterned, complex and indifferent. There is an oscillation between structure and chaos, between ordering and disordering, between melody and static. The entire process plays out right in front of our noses.
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
The Foreground Notes project includes more than 900 ink and wash drawings, scores of archival pigment prints of various dimensions, video/animation loops and an archive of thousands of film and digital photographs.
Cascade 2014
pigment print 17 x 52 inches
Not Your Mother’s Rococo
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Drawingwall Splits 2007
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Rockneedle 2003
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Drawingwall scroll 03 2014
pigment print 15 x 48 inches
Scree Walk 2008
15 sumi pen drawings on paper + video loop
At Rest: Balbonne
sumi pen, brush and ink on paper 8 x 10 inches
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The Endless Loop of Positive and Negative (2021)
Drawingwall scroll 01 - cut and stacked, horizontal to vertical
pigment print 15 x 60 inches
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