The works on view are recent creations, many the result of a 5-week August/September 2025 residency in the city of Krems, Austria, situated in the Wachau white wine region. I have created a new group of Lost Highway drawings, in a larger format than previously attempted. They are notations, improvisations, spontaneous impressions, most often done while sitting in the passenger seat of a moving vehicle. This series has its origins in the endless city-to-city travels that are part of a musician's life. The activity – sketching from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle – has now become something of a habit. In my Krems studio I began making larger (A3) size images, using my smaller drawings as templates. I was trying to keep the initial spontaneous impressions alive, while growing the works to a larger format.
I also began experimenting with a new sequence of abstractions, pairing them with the Lost Highway images, as a way to open these works up to new meanings. The abstractions are still nascent, without parameters or pre-determination at this early stage. Experiments with shape and form. My goal at this early stage of development is to produce them without judgment, almost unconsciously, and see where they lead me.
