Feral Grace I

This piece was made in a wild frenzy in February 2025. It was the first time since the injury that I used a Larger canvas (Like half my body) and also the first time I ever used my preferred material: Vellum! The combination of vellum, masking tape, and off-color paper is a staple canvas in my work. It reflects and intensifies the feeling of the style itself: precision and clarity mixed with a vulgar unpolishedness. This juxtaposition is burned into the very action of the work: the mere attempt at detailed, sophisticated abstraction with the non-dominant hand. I discovered this combination of materials thanks to visiting a close friend and artist who had vellum in their friend's studio. He pulled it out after I described the surface I wished to draw on: smooth almost slippery (speed is essential. I made this in a little over an hour), yet retaining even the lightest markings clearly. I remember bending in all sorts of positions on the floor trying to make this. It was almost like a yoga practice (forshadowing) and felt shamanic for being so physically engaging- crouching over something and impatiently bringing it to life. I fell in love with large pieces and vellum that day.