Atlas of Holding Together (I-V)
30” x 22” inches each
Watercolor, ink, acrylic and archival print on paper
2025
‘Atlas of Holding Together’ (2025) is a series of collaged drawings on paper. Combining images from the artist’s point and shoot camera, with watercolor, ink and acrylic drawings - these works trace back into the beginnings of my interest in abstraction – in constructing a cryptic geography, connecting body and landscape, imagined and urban. The photographs in this particular body of work - from the street or from the studio, are of things being held together or falling apart. This sense of collapse and a resistance to collapse has become a significant point of interest in my practice.
Here, the black and white images combined with the immediacy and physical lucidity of water-based materials, the transparencies and overlaps it allows, give the final image a scan or x-ray like quality, almost as if it were exposing the organs and bones of my larger practice. These function as a prequel to larger paintings; they contain diagrams, suggestions, clues, questions, spontaneous conjurings and ways of looking. Construction, decay, formation and collapse become verbs of a poetic interchangeability; the image arrived at, is a tentative map of the world charting a choreography for searching.