(re)drawn is an investigation into how drawing is a meditative process that helps me recollect and reflect on personal experiences. I come to my work and materials as a drawer, merging both line and mark making investigations into drawings/objects. I think of my work as drawings because of the consideration of line, light, shadow, texture, tone, color, gesture, and presence. The act of drawing is an intuitive methodological approach in my making process.

My research is a culmination of investigating; line, the body, play, and collecting. Recently my work has been about processing an incredibly painful experience of a failed surgery that had me in and out of the hospital and resulted in emergency surgery. This near death experience caused me to think about connections; forced, found, or failed. Connections between people, place and things. How forms are structurally connected or unconnected.

I look at everyday, found and collected objects for inspiration. I tend to work with discarded, non-archival, found paper products, as well as handmade paper. The act of folding, scoring, bending, sun bleaching, and making paper are investigations into mark making. Paper remembers like the body. Folding paper creates a crease that cannot be removed, similarly to how a cut may leave a scar. The scar may fade but it will always mark the surface.

In this exhibition I explore various ways of creating connections and markings to paper, one of which is sewing. The act of sewing creates a connection and in this process the material is both being deconstructed and reconstructed. Through the use of a sewing machine, I am able to explore a different way of constructing and drawing lines. Being able to (re)draw personal experiences has helped me process and let go. Drawing is for me a method to communicate with the world around me, it is a daily practice of observing, looking and collecting.