drawings
ongoing
ink on paper
variable dimensions
In my drawings I largely depict female forms and natural motifs, incorporating text and diagrams. I see the female human body as a sometimes-functioning machine: a geometry yet to be proven, a social synthesis of mathematic and natural elements.
I am inspired by a variety of illustration and graphic practices, including but not limited to those of Dorothy Iannone, Toulouse Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, the ancient artist of the Sigiriya Apsaras (commissioned by King Kassapa, 477-495 AD), and the many uncredited prehistoric artists of the human epoch.
As in my practice at large, I am intrigued by lettering from non-Latin alphabets, inspired by the change in comprehension I experienced—a move from a visual appreciation to a lexical comprehension—when learning the Arabic alphabet. Digital communication practices, modern typographies of non-Latin alphabets, and phenomena in their wake, such as ‘character amnesia,’ and ‘Gestaltzerfall’ continue to provide avenues of theoretical inquiry.