These drawings are a really new direction for me. They're meditations on the idea of the unique and the whole (which I think is something that my artmaking has been about for quite a while in different forms). The shapes started almost by accident and depending on the day are small shells, or tree rings, or fingerprints or fantastical topographic maps. There's definitely a connection to nature – but also a nod to new ways of connection and communication (I think of the clustered drawings as being inspired by social networks) and I think my choice of silverpoint is important to this aspect. Creating work that is inspired by both the old and the new, but in a time-consuming and with an old fashioned method of mark making. Eventually I'll form a more coherent statement about what these drawings are, but for now I'm trying to stay in the moment and enjoy making them.