About This Series

Where the Two Meet is a series of drawings that challenges the viewer to examine life from both a micro and macro lens. The large scale pastel drawings are an extension of my recent explorations into programming, where I examine the fundamental building blocks of biology and apply them to art.

During the process of programming, I write abstract strings of code that bring life to the program. The same logic is applied to the pastel drawings, where I create organic shapes that resemble veins, rivers and cells, as well as manmade ones that mimic streets, polygons and cables. Eventually the organic and manmade shapes build upon one another, coexisting harmoniously while bringing life to the drawing.

I am drawn to the grimy, tactile quality of pastels, which allow for some malleability of the medium and randomness that compliments the straightforward logic of the computer. To add to their unpredictability, the drawings are often rotated midway through their creation, effectively destroying any preconceived notions of their direction.

Many of the works from Where the Two Meet are based on the likenesses of our most canonized figures: celebrities. By abstracting the forms of actors, socialites, and other public figures, the viewer can get a better understanding that all life is programmed in much the same way.