Breath Drawings: New Inquiries - The Tree Series

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Breath Drawings: New Inquiries / The Tree Series

In the Greek tradition, Pneuma is the vital breath — the bridge between the physical and the divine. It is the word my practice begins with. These small panels — intimate in scale, made to be approached closely — were drawn in silence, breath by breath, from two specific trees: an Eastern white pine in Maine and a spruce in New York City. Both are evergreen and towering, watched daily from the kitchen windows of their respective houses through the cold months. Neither was ever the same twice. The light shifted, the weather changed, the sky behind the branches was always slightly different.
The marks are not depictions of these trees. They are transcriptions — the body's own branching interior responding directly to the tree's presence and energy. What needed saying was not how the trees looked but how they felt: their rootedness, their reach, their quiet insistence toward something beyond ordinary perception.
Each panel records its own duration. Together they form a conversation across one season, two cities, and two living trees - made in the winter and spring of 2026.