Public and Private

In my drawings I explore the relationship between memory and pictorial expression. Drawing from personal experience living in various locations: Japan, Southern California, and now Kentucky, I choose ordinary people and their environments as subjects to initiate my research. By focusing on the unique gestures of human figures and amplifying urban settings, I experiment with shifting vantage points to establish a new context for daily visual experiences and to engage the audience with point of view outside the scope of everyday life.
My aim is to investigate how pictorial form can intensify aspects of daily visual experience: the change in mood between familiar and unfamiliar spaces, glances and lines of sight between people, and details that potentially slip into the periphery of vision unnoticed. These characteristics provide fuel for creating unusual viewpoints, which reveal the value of daily life as a topic for exploration in drawing.
This piece represents people and places that I encountered in Long Beach, California. The people were from different social demographics, and points of view, but are all connected through their shared environment and their relationships with me.