People overconsume. Keeping my drawings simple is one way I can say: “Hey, you don’t need to have a lot to be a lot.” My favorite material is paper. I like collaging paper onto paper. Don’t get me wrong: I adore color. Rothko. Chagall. O’Keeffe. Dali. But I’m in pursuit of a modern aesthetic of “beauty.” I look for what emerges in the distillation. In the clutter reduction. And the attentuation of noise. New layers of my artistic idealogue might be expansive — from Wordsworth to Ladytron — but a strong, singular concept in an art work is what makes me feel so close to it, I can weep.
Emma
