Desire Lines

Desire lines are paths that follow the shortest or easiest route between an origin and a destination. Desire connects. The works in this series are about connection and the innate human desire for inter-dependency despite powerful cultural messaging to the contrary. They are also about being diasporic, which means that I'm constantly seeking home while also wanting to wander.

Eggs, rainwater, bones, rocks, and flowers are sourced from specific places and are used to make these paintings. On the topography of the paper, these materials strive to encounter each other like rivers or living veins. I don't mean this metaphorically. Driven by gravity and capillary action, they seek each other out, creating new combinations and forms.

These works are an experiment in listening, translating, and choreographing the roving desire of the material world.