I perform kinesthetic drawing experiments that use the physicality of my body as a medium. My vocabulary draws from the language of athletic conditioning and sports training while invoking the traditions of drawing, painting and performance. As an extension of my limbs, drawing tools such as charcoal and chalk register the physical connectivity between myself and the spaces through which I move. Drawings emerge as topographical traces of movement over a surface.

My work aims to disturb lines that are categorically drawn, and questions the stability of the contours we embody and by which we limit ourselves. By using tests of endurance and possibility, I agitate these edges and breach these boundaries, in order to reveal their tenuousness and open a space of play and discovery.

I base my practice on the frameworks of sports training regimens. Each task has its own rules. For example:

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