The trajectory of my work is the reinterpretation of the urban landscape. Provoked by spaces created within manmade structures, I explore emptiness through the use of the grid. My drawings are created from imagination and the observation of modern structures that are vacant and hollow, having evolved from my experiences living and working in various major cities.

As a graduate student in Detroit, I began documenting buildings that caught my attention because they were vacant physically or aesthetically disconnected from the landscape. Detroit’s population had declined by 486,000 in two decades, and by 35 percent in three decades from 1950 to 1980. In 1990 the downtown had 46 vacant buildings of four stories or more. Concurrently I was reading on the subject of emptiness in the context of Eastern thought and using watercolor in my work for it’s minimal and direct application.

Along with over 3.9 million people, I now live in Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States. While the population in Los Angeles continues to expand, its multiple skylines contain a similar vacancy to Detroit. Through the act of drawing, both immediate and organic, I am exploring the impermanence of existence and emptiness through the urban landscape.