The meandering line, so evident in this recent body of work, represents an impulse towards rhythm and form arising from deeply felt instinct. Lately, these drawing urges have found a resonance with certain forms that I have observed in the world around me. On a recent trip to Mexico, I found myself collecting pounds and pounds of the brain coral washed onto the beach each day - its convoluting forms mimicing and echoing the ones I had been drawing. These most recent drawings come most closely to developing a language that is primarily based on this rhythmical “automatic” writing or drawing. Layering creates transparencies and counterpoints of sound, movement, and color. Allusion to maps -their radiant physical space and their ability to hold and reveal multiple levels of information (including the non-visible) – also plays a role in the structural organization of this newest work. As always, my drawings are “found” - a result of taking a journey without knowing exactly where I am going but filled with the confidence that drawing has the poetry to take me there and that I will recognize my destination when I get there.