Single-page small drawings display at “Forest Unseen” at the Petaluma Arts Center, 2025
Tree Topologies
I turned to drawing trees as a way to return to ground after seven years of performance work about race, rooted in journalism and community. I needed time with only a pencil, a sheet of paper, and quiet. Yet even in that stillness, complexity took root. These drawings became meditations on structure, dimensionality, wildness, life, loss, and regeneration. I’ve long said that the hardest things to draw are trees and rubble—and somehow, I’ve ended up devoted to both.
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The source images are all drawn from life or from photographs I have taken, starting from extensive time in the back corners of California.