Sep 3 - 26, 2009
I work from the live model and from photographs of these sessions. The drawings in this presentation specifically probe notions of distances, great and small, as well as notions of open ground and narrow passes. The various figures (nearly always the same man) advance or retreat into the ground of the drawing as they materialize and dematerialize on the painted Mylar. They occupy and relinquish the shallow stage of the depicted battle variously, through their levels of opacity or translucency, through their entrances or exits. Like characters in an epic battle, the figures play their compulsory parts in an ever-unfolding topography of war.