I am a drawer in a few ways. Firstly, I draw with pencils and pastels on paper to make my works. These are often overlooked materials because we've used them all our lives. Yet it is this elemental nature that pulls me to them. I plan, cut, draw on, and fold my paper to make objects, because a piece of paper becomes three-dimensional when it hugs itself. My energy and attention pulled through the tips of my fingers, and pigment is laid down, to render them. ||I, too, am a drawer in that my works are contained in and pulled out from drawer boxes within me. They are recreations of objects that have called me to pay special attention as I go about my life outdoors and in domestic spaces. Replicas of rocks I encounter on my hiking and climbing trips; one for each trip. Filled of memories with friends or alone with nature, they are small monuments to the rocks that have provided access for me to hike, sit on, and climb up them. A replica of Darcey Steinke's kitchen cupboard whose spots around and on the handles show how they've worn down. Full of life from years of use, touch, and the presence of family and friends. I yearn to convey the care these objects revealed to me.||And lastly, they've also allowed me to draw time. I stretch and compress time through my works. The rocks and cupboard which record time, captured in a moment's light, and relationships condensed along with them, are brought to my studio. I carefully render them and they are lengthened again.