My Father’s Death

My Father’s Death
Charcoal drawing on arches 300gsm rag, 2024.

My practice begins with personal experience. Each idea chooses its own language, and I follow where it leads. I often explore threshold places, the intersections of destruction and renewal, descent and return. My Father’s Death occupies the ultimate threshold, the boundary between life and death, captured in the image of my father in his coffin. 

I originally drew this as a private drawing. For most, it is confronting. For me, it isn’t.

In this drawing, my father is always leaving.