Tracks

I’ve long been drawn to the quiet imprint of things left behind—especially the patterns we rarely stop to notice. With the Tire Track Series, I turn my attention to the marks made by tire treads—symbols of journeys taken, paths crossed, and the physical residue of forward motion.

In gathering these impressions, I think often about the weight of passage—how tires press against the ground, embedding themselves momentarily before moving on. These marks are not just functional or accidental; they carry with them a kind of visual memory, a mapping of experience. Each rub, each embedded print, is a record of contact between the wayfarer and the earth—a story written in pressure and friction.

While some might see tire tracks as commonplace or utilitarian, my intention is to reframe them—to extract from these overlooked patterns a deeper narrative about movement, direction, and presence. I don’t recreate the tracks so much as translate them, embedding them into new surfaces through a process of rubbing and transfer. This physical act becomes both ritual and preservation—an honoring of the silent history embedded in these forms.

Inherent in this work is a fascination with mark making as both documentation and abstraction. As I collect and recontextualize these tire impressions, I invite viewers to reflect on their own paths—those taken, those missed, and those still ahead. In these prints, I see not only where we’ve been, but the ghostly suggestion of where we might be going.