Sometimes the less you see, the more you feel... A few years ago, I started experimenting with very high contrast pieces. I would get black paper and white charcoal pencils and draw. Sometimes I would work with very soft dark charcoal on white paper. These are surprisingly hard to manage and require method. Like watercolor, or pastel they require immediate precision. Graphite pencil work can be erased and is forgiving.

I did not do many of these drawings. But on those few days when I had the patience, I would spend my time trying to wrench mood, often longing, out of the darkness…