Everyone has their own definition of drawing. Mine is relaxed and free to discussion and change, but altogether is a simultaneously personal and world sharing process. Drawing allows me to participate in the symbiotic processes of the earth, as I try to form kinships with its elements, getting to know them as well as I know the intricacies of my own family. It is a process of observation, unwrapping layers through markings, lines, shadows, shades, tones. Drawing, like care, is sometimes aggressive, painful and takes a lot of labor. It is HARD, the type of difficulty that parallels running a marathon, a mental and physical exercise that requires training and focus, and even warm ups (this is something that Sue Gussow always taught me and I always struggle to do). Each project below is a different theme or type of drawing, assigned by professors or just on my own. And yet each one consistently stimulates and supports this continued curiosity in the world.