I am drawn to the tangibility and immediacy of drawing, and to the way the physical sensation of a tool’s grain against a surface can ground me to the act of making something real. “Viscera (Your Breath in My Lungs),” is a memory of movement and of the breath as it travels through the body, imprinting itself upon the page like skin. The shape of every mark is informed by layers beneath, and by my exploration of my ancestry, displaced memory, and the re-tracing of legacy. The work is an homage to my grandmother, who I was very close to and who, I am told, I resemble in many ways. I feel her closeness sometimes in a breath of air against my cheek, but also in the physicality of mark-making.