“Chronology, the time which changes things, makes them grow older, wears them out, and manages to dispose of them, chronologically, forever. Thank God there is kairos too: again the Greeks were wiser than we are. They had two words for time: chronos and kairos. Kairos is not measurable. Kairos is ontological. In kairos we are, we are fully in isness, not negatively, as Sartre saw the isness of the oak tree, but fully, wholly, positively. Kairos can sometimes enter, penetrate, break through chronos: the child at play, the painter at his easel, Serkin playing the Appassionata are in kairos. The saint in prayer, friends around the dinner table, the mother reaching out her arms for her newborn baby are in kairos.” - Madeleine L’Engle

Kairos, the poetic and embodied experience of time, is what I attempt to capture in this new body of work. Drawing, in time, has become for me a ritual of slowing down, demanding an awareness of seeing the now, a holding in the present. These resulting artworks are a shadowland, a layered cartographic record of the collision of chronos and kairos, reminding me of all that I can see and all that I cannot.

These works are investigations of the path of light and resulting shadows through everyday glass objects. This experience of working with the movement of light over time has slowly become a confrontation with the sublime; I’ve become increasingly aware of the ineffability of recording these moments and of archiving ordinary time.