Time Travel (Heartbeat) Series | Oil on Canvas and Thread | 2018 - 2021
These Time Travel (Heartbeat) paintings, like much of my work, exist as units of measurement. I paint a grid, and then spend a specific amount of time sewing in the spaces that I've created. The result is an object that formally presents the time and effort that went into its making; an aesthetic record of my activity. As I work on them, I often think about all of the other things I could be doing with my time; and in particular, my distance away from my loved ones, as a way of traveling or projecting in place. I record the time spent sewing each object as the amount of times my heart beat during the process. They are a record of my time spent here on Earth.