Foreground Notes
Foreground Notes is a long-term research in the apprehension of nature through drawing, photography,
video and digital imaging.
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 the activity of looking and marking.
Linesets: 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
Culvert (Winter and Spring) 2008
Cascade 2014
pigment print 17 x 52 inches
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Not Your Mother’s Rococo
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Drawingwall Splits 2007
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Rockneedle 2003
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
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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