Through drawing, printmaking, and site-specific paper installation, I map the hidden infrastructure of shared spaces, focusing on the overlooked people and things that keep our world in motion. Within these high-density environments, I examine the friction between our desire for individual privacy and our total reliance on the systems and strangers around us. Documenting the people and objects usually lost in the background, such as transit workers, commuters, and street debris, I use archival technical pens and carbon ink to build dense, vibrating fields of thousands of cross-hatched lines. This relentless, high-contrast linework completely coats every surface, flattening real-world dimensions so that the final, life-sized installations look like an immersive, two-dimensional drawing brought into physical space. This juxtaposition brings together the immateriality of shared time and the tactile weight of municipal space.
My slow, manual process acts as a direct counter-rhythm to the speed of modern life. Spending hundreds of hours rendering the texture of a safety vest or the surface of a fire hydrant gives these fleeting items a profound sense of permanence, weight, and substance. I build these highly detailed drawings into three-dimensional frameworks using industrial paper and corrugated cardboard, treating the structural underlays not as standalone objects, but as direct extensions of the page itself. By turning flat images into three-dimensional environments, the work blends precise architectural references with imagined ruins, creating a space where the viewer walks among reconstructed fragments of the city.
This investigation scales fluidly from monumental installations down to the miniature, archiving daily municipal life across small, everyday objects like found matchboxes and handmade zines. Elsewhere, the ink leaves the traditional page for wood panels or heavy paper, capturing commuting figures whose bodies are structurally segmented by the rhythmic tile patterns of transit stations. Together, these works function as physical records of the constant maintenance required to keep our world in motion. By pulling these moments out of the background, the sheer volume of these hand-drawn marks serves as a tactile testament to what it feels like to pay radical attention to the quiet, essential details of the environment we share.
