‘Ghosts, Darkly’ are a series of approximately 70 drawings responding to the unprecedented isolation the pandemic impressed upon us. The images in these works metaphorically represent the physical and psychological constraints under which we were living and working. I draw from old, illustrated gardening manuals and how-to books depicting how to set out row covers and nets to shroud plants from weather and pests, in other words, just like the pandemic, protecting nature from itself. At the same time, it is important for me to depart from the utilitarian source imagery and imbue these works with my own meanings.

Ghosts, Darkly
2020-21
pencil on black paper
over all 35 x 79 inches
Ghosts, Darkly series, exhibition installation, tender land, Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME, Sept - Dec 2021
Ghosts, Darkly Small #15
2022
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly Small #16
2022
pencil on paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly Small #17
2022
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly #3
2020
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #10
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #5
2020
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #9
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #7
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #14
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #4
2020
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #6
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #8
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts Darkly Small Diptych
2021
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 39 inches
Ghosts Darkly Small Diptych Detail
2021
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts Darkly Small Diptych Detail
2021
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly Large #1
2021
pencil on black paper
22 x 30"
Ghosts, Darkly series
Ghosts, Darkly Small Diptych #1
2020-21
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly Large Diptych #1
2021
pencil on black paper
22 x 60"
Ghosts, Darkly series
Ghosts, Darkly Large Diptych #1 Left panel
2021
pencil on black paper
22 x 30"
Ghosts, Darkly Large Diptych #1 Right panel
2021
pencil on black paper
22 x 30"
Ghosts, Darkly #1
2020
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly Small Diptych #2
2020-21
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 39 inches
Ghosts, Darkly Small Diptych #2 DETAIL
2020-21
pencil on black paper
11 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
Ghosts, Darkly #11
2020-21
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #13
2021
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
Ghosts, Darkly #2
2020
pencil on black paper
11 3/4 x 19 3/4"
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