The Monument series (2002-2008) are pastel drawings on watercolor paper ranging from 22 x 22 inches to 40 x 26 inches.  They depict single objects or groups of objects, nonfunctional sculptural forms. The drawings are realistically rendered, presenting the images with visual accuracy rather than highlighting the gestural marks of the pastel. 

Almost entirely monochromatic objects against mostly monochromatic fields, the visual details are reduced, creating emphasis on the objects’ forms as well as on the shadows and subtle reflections caused by the light illuminating them.  Although they have familiar qualities, the objects are unidentifiable.  They are evocative without being illustrations of anything in particular.

“These drawings represent biomorphic transitions, things becoming things or things losing their initial identity, breaking down into their constituent forms.  They are alternately micro- and macrocosmic in scale.  As drawings they also represent a liminal state, moving through material transformations and steady states and from representations of the real to propositions for monuments or molecules.” – Lewis deSoto