Penumbrae: Thought Constellations

I am fascinated by the actual and imagined physical places where memories, facts, and thoughts reside in my brain, as well as by how they are stored and retrieved. I create enigmatic drawings in various media of these imagined locations and their contents. My drawings involve a process of diagramming using labeling systems (assigned within an imagined framework related to structures of the brain) and short personal narratives sometimes based on fact, often times imagined. My work is ultimately an attempt to communicate the impossibility of having control over what I choose to think, what I have repressed, what I remember, and how these are interrelated. It is the combination of all of these beautifully complex functions that allows the mind to become such a visually active playground.