Botany
In 1987 I made a group of charcoal drawings and named the series "Botany". Although I had been working on paper, primarily in the medium of collage since 1976, this was the first time that one drawing so quickly segued into another in a series format. I found I could consider the conceptual possibilities within a like series of images in a more comprehensive way. I had limited my palette to black and white within which the variety of tonal ranges gave me a new understanding of depth and transparency.
The drawings are made on Murillo paper, using compressed charcoal, an eraser, my hands and an old T-shirt for blending. They each measure 39 1/2" x 27". Although they have an organic or botanical appearance, I used no models but rather worked from an internal, intuitive feeling for form. The drawings are direct, tactile. The pieces, twenty in all, emerged quickly, one right after the next.
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