Drawing...

Drawing is pretty much the life force of everything I make. Most of the sculptural stuff comes out of drawing and the process of mark making so after the haul of the degree show I wanted to come back to some research and using drawing as a way of testing methods and rules.

The book on top is 'Afterimage: Drawing through process', it contains a ton of drawings from 24 artists including Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Barry Le Va and Marcia Hafif who use varying (and often fairly eccentric) approaches to the idea and materiality of drawing. 

I ended up coming back to ground charcoal and repeated scattering for the first attempt...

I wanted to see what kind of geography the charcoal bits would produce through the repeated scattering so I let it build up over time. Probably one of the things I like most about doing something like this is that you can use each attempt like an investigation. Once I begin, I can only make observations without necessarily knowing what the end result is going to be.