For the past couple of years, I’ve been experimenting – developing drawings, based on ideas

begun during the pandemic, that explore dreams and memories. They require visual forms that

are slippery, sometimes random and disconnected. I work in colored pencils and oil pastels, on

Arches paper and vellum. The imagery includes shadows, color, objects drawn as if seen under

vellum – hazy and indistinct. I am currently drawing exclusively using photo images, rather than

drawing by direct observation, as I had in my previous body of work. The images remain

representational, but their subjects are less solid – shadows, windows with reflections and

objects partially seen under vellum. I’m playing with scale and color. I’m interested in creating a

delicate sense of dislocation – is that element real, or an illusion? – as in remembering a dream,

or a past place or event - just as you think you have it, it starts to slip away. B.R.