I use my body as a medium to perform kinesthetic drawing experiments that draw from the language of sports training and athletic performance. Drawings delineate the site of perception, where self and the world touch, and form maps that record points of contact between body and environment. As the self marks the space, the space marks the individual in return, which manifests reciprocally in the physical work one does.

My work seeks to disturb lines that are categorically drawn, and questions the stability of the contours we embody and by which we limit ourselves. In drawing under duress, I aim to agitate the edges and breach these boundaries, and to explore a state of consciousness that is rooted in the body.

A typical training structure:

warm up

stretch

visualize activity

perform activity

attend to formal elements

sustain movement over specified time or distance

recover

Extending this framework to a drawing regimen:

get in body

select movement vocabulary

choose tools

push movement to outer limits

soften gaze

control velocity

work to fatigue

recover