Love Letters
2023—current
Love Letters includes small-scale drawings and paintings on paper and wood. Made with pens, pencils, and small brushes while sitting on the floor or at a table, these works serve as a meditative and devotional practice. The subject matter is drawn from my personal photographs of first-hand experiences and immediate surroundings, ranging from people and animals to landscapes and still lifes. Together, these intimate pieces merge imagery and abstraction, not as conceptual framework, but as intuitive expression of energy and emotion. Akin to handwriting, these works document and reflect time, memory, commitment, and love.
The Last Thing
First there was the blue wing
of a scraggly loud jay tucked
into the shrubs. Then, the bluish
black moth drunkenly tripping
from blade to blade. Then,
the quiet that came roaring
in like the RJ Corman over
Broadway near the RV shop.
These are the last three things
that happened. Not in the universe,
but here, in the basin of my mind,
where I’m always making a list
for you, recording the day’s minor
urchins: silvery dust mote, pistachio
shell, the dog eating a sugar
snap pea. It’s going to rain soon,
close clouds bloated above us,
the air like a net about to release
all the caught fishes, a storm
siren in the distance. I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.
—Ada Limón
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
―William Blake, Auguries of Innocence