Enjoying the intimacy of working with my hands, I use charcoal to create large-scale drawings of things we see everyday but rarely notice. This series creates a dialogue around consumption for comfort's sake, taking the viewer on an intimate journey into dietary rituals. Every day, we choose to swallow things based on the reward we believe will be received by doing so (i.e. more energy, longer life, vitality, tranquility, mental focus, comfort). By choosing to draw these instances, to freeze time and enlarge the subjects, I create the opportunity for reflection about what we absent-mindedly consume day to day, and what we actually gain from it.

"Drowning" to be Published