I measured the edges of my body at varying levels of magnification to calculate the growth I experienced after my sister’s death.
Most maps tend to focus on the built environment. The Phoenix Cactus Map focuses on the diversity of the Sonoran Desert in Central Phoenix.
Stuck at home and out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, I began to document, collect and draw the plants that proliferate in my own front yard then leave the layered drawings in jars next to the same plants I found around the city.
Stuck at home and out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, I began to document, collect and draw the plants that proliferate in my own front yard then leave the layered drawings in jars next to the same plants I found around the city.
A flow chart trying to make sense out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The layers of this chart built up as each facet of life spiraled into more complexity.
These drawings test the apparent simplicity and ease of drawing a single line while revealing the variations that a line takes from the person drawing it.
I spoke to 12 women, one on one, about everything from pelvic pain to hysterectomies to sweaty butts on paper while they selected and held a speculum.
2017-2019 pencil on paper, 40″ x 50″ evolving drawing After feeling despair over numerous tragic events (shootings, bombings, politics) I tried making sense of it by creating a map that looked at all the small steps that took us to where we are. I started with 9/11, as the point of fear, mourning and state […]