Slippery Geometry, Series F–I
fountain pen ink on paper, 22x30
2022

on view at Mars Landing Galleries, Mars Hill

While I’ve stated that I want each series of Slippery Geometry to have its own character, there also comes a point that you start to feel like you maybe pushed forward, rushing over territory that was rich for more exploration. So with this series I started by revisiting something of a hybrid of two early attempts from Series A, trusting that the combination and the ink itself would hold something unique and new to add. Mining deeper into ideas can be its own new territory.

Slippery Geometry, Series C–V
fountain pen ink on paper, 22x30
2022

on view at Mars Landing Galleries, Mars Hill

Slippery Geometry, as a whole, has a language—but each series has its own expression or dialect. Sometimes, often with the first of a new series, I am overtly trying to expand the vocabulary, or at least grasp how this new material fits into it. Other times, like here, I feel like the piece is trying expand the vocabulary and I’m just trying to understand how. I don’t always meet those demands but the effort is an interesting exercise unto itself.