I Wish I Knew What to Say

April 7, 2017 — June 8, 2017 /
Project Space, Montalvo Arts Center / Sarasota, CA

Graphite and charcoal on paper, animations

In an exhibition of drawing and animation, this body of work reflects the experience of being alive – the cycle of gestures, choices and actions countered by loss and change. “I wish I knew what to say” and “There are no words” are some of the phrases written on these drawings, a response to feeling at a loss for language during personal and collective loss or tragedy. Filled with erasure and accumulation of mark-making, this work sits at the edge of where written language and gesture meet, where a scribble might become a written word. As Samuel Beckett writes in his play The Unnamable: “You must go on. / I can’t go on. / I’ll go on.” Created by drawing and erasing, revealing traces of the previous gestures, the drawings are as much the residue of the animations as their starting point.