Mole Hills

Mole Hills Study 1 - gouache, ink, acrylic and graphite on paper, 8.5 x 11”, 2009

Mole Hills - Study 2 - gouache, ink and graphite on paper, 7.5 x 11”, 2009

Mole Hills - Study 3, graphite and ink on paper, 7x 9”, 2009

Mole Hills - Study 6, ball point pen, ink, gouache, graphite on paper, 15”x20.5”, 2010

Mole Hills - Study 4, graphite, ink and acrylic on paper, 8x 11”, 2009

Mole Hills - Study 5, graphite, ink and acrylic on paper, 10x 11”, 2009

Mole Hills 7 - detail

Mole Hills 7 - gouache, ink, graphite, ball point pen and collage on paper, 40x 60”, 2009

Mole Hills 8- gouache, ink, graphite, ball point pen and collage on paper, 40”x 65”, 2009

I am interested in using the map metaphorically to create a personal history that, although rendered from an actual physical location, takes on a shape of its own. I am interested in crossing the tenuous boundaries between what is real and what is imagined, where the unreliability of memory encourages a range of interpretations and manipulations. I am curious how mark-making while depicting something concrete, shifts to a more imaginative and intuitive realm, where I am able to act out my diversions, dreams and memories.