Small edit from last year’s body of work, What Our Bones Remember.
While marbling these, I kept asking myself, how could I translate desire into a silk x-ray?
I read Gabrielle Calvocorressi’s collection of poems, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, that led to endless searches of pelvic bone diagrams — the delicate hip and femur bones that build up the end of our spinal vertebrae.
These pieces are captured bone arrangements by way of x-rayed desire and memory.
Documentation @meeshk
Soundscape @stuartmauck
Bone stills, 2.3.24
Marbled x-rays inspired by a pelvic bone and harp from Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s collection of poems, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.
On desire, grief and all between the lines.
Filmed throughout sunset with @meeshk to capture the studio light
Marbled runway study of a straight approach for RWY 3 with windsocks indicating slight tailwind
at the Accomack County Airport.
This piece was marbled right after landing from a fuel up at KMFV on a windy country day.
I pulled up the runway markings specific to the airport and began to marble them backwards in the tray as a prompt to steady my hand and continue drafting/composing marbled symbols.
Available now at @branchmuseumofdesign
KMFV RWY 3/21, 2025
Ink on habotai silk
A selection of four marbled silks will be available tomorrow night at the Branch as part of their debut shop collection curated by Odd Bird!
This selection of silks are aviation-based compositions of aeronautical weather and chart symbols referenced historically by pilots – gridded lines of ellipses form shorthand conversations and scored maps of time and flight.
These scores are drafted from in-flight conversations of weather and aviation with my late flight instructor to honor our time spent in the air.
Flying and marbling both hold records of movement, whether of a needle tracing these shapes in the marbling tray, or of an aircraft in flight – these studies are a bridge between both loves.
Prairie du Chien (Hay Score), 2025
Ink on habotai silk
Documentation courtesy of @_slowmedown
Detail shots of marbled spines, towers and rings of airspace of a marbled silk map from my new body of work, Flight Scores: Land Notations.
To further delineate airspace on this sectional chart of Virginia, I slowly marbled lines of white ink to build out this map.
Washington Sectional, 2025
35 x 35 inches
Ink on habotai silk
Photos courtesy of Em White
Details of a notated silk map scoring landmarks and encountered weather. Each path of suminagashi rings embeds a story of wind and airspace atop landmarks of towers and open terrain.
The art of flight and marbling share a throughline of marksmanship.
Each holding record of movement –
one an aircraft
the other, an artist’s hand.
Each land score is a silk map laid twice in the marbling tray, to hold the memory of flight and physical land as it is built upon with time.
Land Score (Tower and Wind Notation), 2025
21 x 21 inches
Ink on habotai silk
Photos courtesy of Em White
Thrilled to share that I will be giving an artist talk about contemporary marksmanship in silk marbling at my alma mater on February 27.
I’ll walk through the history of marbling, expand on my time in LU’s Artist Books and Printmaking concentration, and dig into 3 recent bodies of studio work.
This will be the first time touching on research and sharing images from my new series, Flight Scores: Land Notations.
Talk is open to the public! See you there ⚡️
Artist Talk: Contemporary Marksmanship in Silk Marbling
Friday, February 27, 12:30pm
Bedford Hall Auditorium at Longwood University
424 Race St, Farmville, VA
Photos courtesy of @_slowmedown
Tumbled stone camo over camel base
3/3 of new marbled edition of camo silks
Available now at @with.boon
Stone Camo 003, 2026
Ink on habotai silk
21 inches square
Geologic stone camo in red oxide
2/3 of new marbled camo silk edition
Available now at @with.boon
Stone Camo 002, 2026
Ink on habotai silk
21 inches square
Yea I said it…….. marbled geologic stone camooooooo 🪨💎🦆
1/3 of new marbled camo silk edition
Available now at @with.boon
Stone Camo 001, 2026
Ink on habotai silk
21 inches square
Aeronautical shorthand of birds in flight, towers, and rings of airspace.
Commissioned silk map for @oonaschreur
To draft this piece, we looked through marbled maps in the studio to land on this palette and symbols. First map with birds 🪶
21 x 21 inches
Ink on habotai silk
Shorthand map of snow, rain and towers across 1,429 nautical miles.
These silks are ongoing studies composed of weather conversations with my late flight instructor throughout 3 days of a helicopter ferry to North Dakota we flew in February 2025.
Recounting these conversations is both a way to honor our last hours of flying together and of studying historical aeronautical symbols that pilots once referenced in flight planning.
This palette is one of frozen waters we flew over, both Lake Etta and Sakakawea of North Dakota.
Over Lake Etta (Nearing Williston), 2026
Ink on habotai silk
21 x 21 inches
