(drawing before writing / writing before drawing)

how to build a memory palace

Layered vellum, guache

17” x 17”

(drawing before writing / writing before drawing)

entering heaven alive

Layered vellum, guache

17” x 17”

(drawing before writing / writing before drawing)

what to do with windows

Layered vellum, guache

17” x 17”

(drawing before writing / writing before drawing)

butterfly psychology

Layered vellum, guache

17” x 17”

 

Myth of Closure

Six Layered drawings outlining each word of Death Notices in the New York Times with non-photo blue pencil, First in the sequence

Vellum, non-photo blue pencil

6” x 24”

 

No Specific Plan

Layered drawings outlining each word of poems I wrote about my work as a Suicide Hotline Counselor, with non-photo blue pencil

Vellum, non-photo blue pencil

11” x 11”

 

pink sadness

Eleven layered drawing highlighting every time the word “sadness” appears in the poet Mary Ruefle’s color poems of the same name

Vellum, graphite, guache

14” x 17”

 
 

seven centuries of  / sobbing / gathered / in the / twilight

Erasure of the poet Mary Ruefle’s erasure of a forgotten 19th Century Text, A Little White Shadow, 42 Layers

Vellum, guache

4.5” x 6”