I Am The Weather, 2020—2022

Graphite on acid-free rag paper
Size: image 16″ x 16″, paper 22′ X 30″.

This is part of a larger series of drawings made during the first year of the pandemic, and explores the strangeness of the empty roads and the social isolation that we felt at the time. The drawings that preceded these came from an exercise that was more of a meditation, than an intention to make a piece of art, where I attempted to cover the paper with an even tone of grey, using 6H and 4H pencils. What came out of this activity was a series of large drawings of moody, overcast skies, that then gave rise to this series of six, where the sky is is still the overarching subject, the city beneath it merely the context. I deliberately positioned the image towards the bottom of the paper to accentuate the predominance of the sky above, echoing my experience of that particular period of time.