Untitled (Antarctica ice shelf) 2010
tea, graphite, gouache on paper
4 1/2" x 6"

Untitled (Antarctica) 2010
tea, graphite, gouache on paper

4 1/2" x 6"

Small coastline landscape from a series in progress.

Continental margins mesmerize me: undersea rivers, alluvial fans, submarine canyons and avalanches. They can be narrow and plunge to incredible depths or wide, shallow, and quiet. Economically important and ecologically fragile, the majority of our direct experience of the ocean takes place on tiny continental shelves.

Polar coastlines particularly tantalize. Entire habitats of ice, supporting researchers seasonally, disappear annually. The painfully slow dance of calving icebergs miniaturize our human pulses and rhythms.

Untitled (in progress) 2010
tea, graphite, ink on paper
6" x 81/4"

My favorite drawing from my current series of small images. So favorite, I have to let it marinate before I work on it any more. The details have scanned quite nicely, take a closer look.