My recent works on paper depict gardener’s nets covering fledgling fruit trees.  These forms echo shrouds, body bags, and other enigmatic forms.  I use silverpoint in these works specifically for its faint, ‘ghostly’ delivery of image to paper. I am interested in how silverpoint’s diaphanous affect suggests memory or, ‘ghosting,’ – seeing something we have seen before. This idea is further emphasized in the Ghost series as the organic, billowing shapes of the nets themselves resemble the outline of albeit imaginary ‘ghostly’ shapes hovering within the landscape and the whiteness of the paper itself resembles the colour we associate with ghosts.  Finally, silverpoint itself is a material that over the course of time, morphs from a cold-silver into a warm sepia tone.  The transient nature of growth and decay, as seen in the tended blueberry bushes temporal life-span, is echoed in the amorphous attribute of the drawing material used to depict them.