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"As a method of working I set up certain conventions or rules to follow for a particular series. These rules create limitations on the amount of creative decisions I allow myself to make during the process..."

"...I also find random mark making, or the so-called ‘automatic drawing’ method to be a useful way of making images while avoiding subjective thought. Although it is almost impossible to create work without any decision making I am always looking for new ways of reducing the amount of decisions I make within my process..."

"...For my upcoming exhibition at idspace I am going to try and make work that is about Stephen Freedman’s sculpture. Whenever I go to openings at the gallery I take great pleasure in walking the grounds, being with the garden and the immense canon of his work present there. So when he proposed an exhibition to me I thought it would be cool to do something site specific and hopefully integrate what is outside the gallery into the gallery itself..."

"...The initial parameter I set for myself was to spend time on the property alone and make as many blind contour drawings of his pieces as I could. By blind I mean that my eyes scan the interior and exterior lines of the object while my hand records what I am seeing. The minute detail and variations of the objects surface are recorded with a certain disconnect due to the fact that I do not look at the paper while drawing..."