This current body of work, Make Haste Slowly, is composed of sixteen individual drawings that may be viewed individually, or arranged together to create a sweeping perspective. In this show at Motus Fort, Tokyo, we are viewing the 5 remaining drawings in a series that has traveled to Paris and Italy. Additional works will accompany these. The drawings are created to exist and view separately, or to fit into a larger mapped diagram. It becomes the effects of disintegration and growth.

All sixteen drawings consist of the same subject matter, three buildings seen from different perspectives; “glass steeple church”, an “A-frame hunting lodge cut in half” and a “pink third-world prefabricated residence”. The impetus behind the work was to visually describe a contemporary Hell, inspired by Dante’s Inferno and Sandro Bottocelli’s drawings of the same text.

These spaces are ravaged by conflict reflecting contemporary political situations in the U.S.A., the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Balkans. Conflict often stems from different religious, sexual or ethnic positions. Through these drawings I isolated certain mark makings and spatial experimentation from my previous work to visually articulate a mapping of my perspective in relation to experience.

Paper is cut, folded, stretched by string and encased in laminate to visually articulate a contemporary Hell. By viewing these works, hopefully we may understand how we see each other and then to inspire communication, understanding and growth, rather than foment death and suffering. Experiences of discovery, wonder, reflection, and trajectory surface. We are invited to participate.