Ink and charcoal on paper (27" x 48")

Joann Moser, Senior Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in selecting this drawing for an exhibition organized by the Maryland Federation of Art, wrote that “[t]he unseen layers of earth beneath a house have little to do with visual reality but instead emerged strictly from the artist’s imagination. . . . [a] composition that stimulated my imagination to consider landscape from a nonliteral point of view.”

Polylactic acid filament (8’ wide).

Looking at my lawn one day, I became curious as to who might have lived on our lot of land before we purchased it. I embarked on a research project to find out the history of my neighborhood. I learned that it once belonged to indigenous peoples who were forced out, that tobacco farmers settled it, bringing slavery along, that the locals fought in the Civil War, that the area became estates for former army officials, that it was slowly developed into suburban residential slots, and that many locals have been active in civil rights and other movements. All these stories struck me as a web of sorts that connects with my daily life somehow. I imagined these stories as a network of nets vibrantly quiet beneath my lawn.

Ink and charcoal on bristol paper (24" x 19"). Exhibited at Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York, 2019

This drawing captures with ink the pattern left by running a brush loaded with ink through one of my home’s window screens, then corrected with charcoal dots

Pinewood, varnish, glass jars, mini speakers, speaker wire, anduino circuits, recordings of my heartbeat and recordings of the heartbeat of my father, mother, son, daughter, brother and nephew (made in collaboration with Marcos Pantelis)

Soundtrack (1:03)