Beach was one of those discarded, rolled-up drawings I started in 2021 and whose solution came long after working through the other series. The silhouettes behind the posed figures in front came from The Gatherings series–specifically Throwback. The pastel is taken from the Erasing series. It resolved within two days.

When I began the Paper Trails series, the original idea behind Book [2009] didn't work in that visual space but found its setting in Remnants [2012], a drawing in the C series. 

Again, in Remnants [2012], there is a drawing of a painting on the right hand side that is structured exactly like the drawing Papers [2013], part of the Dreams and Disasters series.

At some point in the creation of a drawing I must decide that it is complete or not complete, successful, or unsuccessful.

However, even after that seemingly definitive point of judgment, I often find myself returning to these drawings again and again as I recognize concepts reappearing whole or in pieces months, years, or even series later. That these concepts may have been revived from drawings rummaged up from the reams of rolled paper in deep storage equally as much as from a drawing framed on view in the world, has led me to question what it means for a drawing to be ‘successful’ or ‘complete’ in the larger context of my career.

But maybe that's the point.