The series began with the serendipitous discovery of an abandoned hawser line (a rope used in mooring or towing a ship) during one of my earliest visits to New Bedford, Massachusetts. While its bedraggled condition might well have been off-putting, I found that the rope’s meaty scale and tattered state instantly resonated exciting possibilities for a series of drawings. Each drawing in the Hawser Series derives from that single piece of rope. The series encompasses twelve drawings and was completed in the fall of 2010.

Begun in 2005, this initial group of seven rope drawings was exhibited for my MFA thesis show at Tufts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. They were shown in the Tisch Gallery of the Aidekman Fine Arts buidling on the Tufts University Campus in January, 2006.