Extraction drawing (5 sites) 2025 – 35 x 27cm, charcoal, acrylic on paper
This drawing crystallizes what was implicit in the paintings, the architectural, the structural, the sense of looking into or through something. The title “5 sites” suggests multiple viewpoints or locations collapsed into one image, which aligns with how the composition reads: overlapping planes, apertures, frames within frames.
Excavation hovers between something inner, bodily, archaeological or architectural ruin. Dark voids feel like openings, chambers, or absences where something once was. The lighter areas might be walls, thresholds, or the revealing of underlying structure. The diagonal thrust of forms creates instability, as if we’re looking at something mid-collapse or being unearthed at an angle.
The charcoal gives a different energy than the paintings, more immediate, perhaps more forensic. It feels like a study, a notation, a way of working through spatial ideas quickly. The marks are searching, probing. There’s less buildup of material than in the paintings, so the process feels more transparent, the thinking more visible.
Multiple sites seen simultaneously or one site fragmented by perception? The ambiguity is intentional, extraction not as discovery of something clear, but as the act of pulling partial, uncertain information from complex reality.
This drawing might be where the preliminary excavation happens, with the paintings then carrying that investigation into thicker, more resistant territory.