Drawing Ritual is a site-responsive installation that emphasizes the primordial gesture of mark making and the physical body of the artist. A full box of three hundred strike-anywhere matches is lit, burned, and converted into charcoal, finally being transformed through artistic action into a drawing of three hundred vertical lines etched directly on the wall.
Avoiding imagery in favor of a measured yet imperfect structure of wavering vertical lines, the piece has a sense of gravity, of dragging or dripping, perhaps reminiscent of the sagging branches of a weeping willow tree.
Responding to cave drawings as much as graffiti, Drawing Ritual is about a demarcation of the passage of time and exists as a meditative practice of sorts, an action that is performed and repeated over and over again