Doors

Doors is a series of drawings featuring male figures, abstract mark- making, and cut paper. The piece is inspired by the Greek Orthodox convention of the iconostas, rows of gold-gilt paintings of saints, which divide the (secular) congregation from the (divine) altar. In this artwork, dreaming figures interact with each other and the viewer, rendered on inexpensive, hollow-core doors - finger marks and scratches left intact. Rather than depicting archetypal portraits of the divine, The Doors are projections of internal fears and longings, expressed through fractured strokes and forms.