The HOME BODY and HOME SUITE HEART drawings began to take shape in the summer of 2008, after an encounter at the soon-to-be opened Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. Upon opening a drawer I was faced with a collection of finches, tagged and laying, forever hushed, all in a row. The drawer next to them revealed their nests, kept intact, on display, yet separated from their makers. This presentation of preservation continues to haunt me, and I am directed to explore the equivocal connections between home and body; between creation and creator; between the need to preserve and the need to make or build.

These drawings are one part of a larger investigation all related to questions of nesting, security, liminality and longing.