Drawing has always been the heart of my art making. I work within the representational tradition. I’m fascinated by the representational element. Objects become carriers for a different intent, one I often don’t understand myself until I have worked with the drawings for a while. If I am successful, the viewer understands cognitively the salient differences between real object and illusionary object, and can see them as being complimentary states.
Koichi Yamoto, a printmaker whose virtuosity with a plunger and balloons I greatly admire, defines the Japanese term mujinzou as such “although a physical object is finite, ideas about it are infinite.”
