203  Ledoux  Street
Taos, NM  87571
[ 575 ]  751 - 1262  -  email: art@203fineart.com

ARTISTS STATEMENT:

These works capture actual physical surfaces with the pressure of my body.  It is my goal to re-present these actual sites as records for consideration and contemplation.

Surfaces are chosen ahead of time.  A paper sheet is prepared, soaked and taken to a location.  The swollen wet paper is then laid over the site and pressed down with bare feet.  Through careful repetition, the physical history of the surface is recorded.  My steps create the art work while adding another simple layer of erosion. 
 
It is my hope to capture the physicality of a site without pretense or embellishment.  
Material history is captured from a particular location- molded during a specific moment in time.  The resulting drawings are immediate and factual, yet they are also simultaneously poetic and suggestive. 

Actors and activities are implied, hinting at the processes that have transpired.  The human imprints are obvious.  Concrete and asphalt are molded again and again.  Drains, and manhole covers are solidly placed.  Street markings are added.  Changes and repairs are made.  Humans also wear away the surfaces with their bodies, vehicles, and activities.  At the same time, nature and her processes are also working- subtly eroding, cracking, heaving and slumping- carving away what is there. 

The history of any surface is a long embedded chain of acts and circumstances over time.  Many things happen on site.  Few are consciously recalled but much is recorded underfoot.