Slippery Geometry, Series C–V
fountain pen ink on paper, 22x30
2022

Slippery Geometry, as a whole, has a language—but each series has its own expression or dialect. Sometimes, often with the first of a new series, I am overtly trying to expand the vocabulary, or at least grasp how this new material fits into it. Other times, like here, I feel like the piece is trying expand the vocabulary and I’m just trying to understand how. I don’t always meet those demands but the effort is an interesting exercise unto itself.

Slippery Geometry, Series C–I
fountain pen ink on paper, 22x30
2021

Thanks to an instragram ad (no shame), I discovered the lovely Birmingham Pen Co. They offer some truly finely crafted, water-soluble inks. Even if they are ‘intended’ for fountain pens, I’ve found them lovely to work with. I have been rather obsessed with this mossy green color they call, Arugula. In fact, I was so entranced with the hue I decided that Series C, using that ink would be distinguish itself with repeated patterns with virtually no negative space to speak of.