Action Paintings

The technique in this series allowed me to be quick and responsive to the work as it unfolded. Aside from establishing a color palette, the work is unprepared. The marks on the canvas are gestural and spontaneous, an index of movement. The use of pencil as the primary medium on raw canvas results in something immediate and visceral that cannot be undone, overpainted, erased or rewritten in any meaningful way. This need for immediacy stemmed from a dissatisfaction with the predominantly digital media used in my profession as an architectural designer, where a great investment in creative effort may often only yield pdf’s of unbuilt work.