Artist’s Statement
We are a culture obsessed with the hair we have, the hair we don’t have and the hair we have, but don’t want.
Cutting one’s hair is a domestic ritual of renewal and promise. I had always been the hairdresser for my family and used to cut my own hair as well. Now I go to the salon. Sitting in the chair, I watch the locks of hair falling to the floor, arranging themselves in random patterns and marks.
My drawings and paintings always begin by looking closely at an object. The thing observed becomes my subject matter, but it is also a means through which I can consider the psychological and emotive underpinnings connected to the object. To bring form to an experience while accepting its mystery.
My recent work focuses on hair collected from family and friends. The drawing is built up by layering individual brush strokes, like hair cut and fallen to the floor. As surrogate portraits these carefully arranged mementos consider broader notions of identity, memory, lo
We are a culture obsessed with the hair we have, the hair we don’t have and the hair we have, but don’t want.
Cutting one’s hair is a domestic ritual of renewal and promise. I had always been the hairdresser for my family and used to cut my own hair as well. Now I go to the salon. Sitting in the chair, I watch the locks of hair falling to the floor, arranging themselves in random patterns and marks.
My drawings and paintings always begin by looking closely at an object. The thing observed becomes my subject matter, but it is also a means through which I can consider the psychological and emotive underpinnings connected to the object. To bring form to an experience while accepting its mystery.
My recent work focuses on hair collected from family and friends. The drawing is built up by layering individual brush strokes, like hair cut and fallen to the floor. As surrogate portraits these carefully arranged mementos consider broader notions of identity, memory, lo