Imaginary Map Drawings
Through both organic and controlled processes, I express on paper the unseen geographic spaces that swarm in my head. I first let ink stream over the drawing surface, then meticulously draw out the built environment using the ink as the waterways. The system allows cities to grow from an organic, unplanned start, reflecting the way our urban areas came about and the natural origin that they still reveal in their layout.
Pop-up Cities
Each popup is one strip of paper, cut and folded into an intersection of two different city scenes. Although the project began in Providence, the imagery is always inescapably that of New York City, where I grew up. These are rooftops from my window, buildings from my walk to school and random arrays of lit windows seen from midnight cab rides home. The popups are a discourse between imagination and the physicality of the paper. Each one takes many hours to draw, cut and fold, slowly creating an ethereal city from aching hands and mounds and mounds of tiny windows.
