The Paris Bridge series began with walking the city slowly, often in rain, paying attention to how weather transforms familiar places into spaces of reflection.
Drawn in charcoal, these works focus on evening and rainfall—conditions that soften edges, quiet movement, and reduce the city to tone, gesture, and light. Detail is suggested rather than described. What matters is atmosphere.
One recurring subject is the Pont Alexandre III, a bridge built for the 1900 World’s Fair as a symbol of optimism and connection. Seen in rain and dusk, it becomes something more personal: a threshold between movement and pause, between presence and memory.
Walking these places with my daughter has shaped how I see them. The drawings carry that relational memory—not as narrative illustration, but as restraint, care, and attention in mark-making.
Charcoal is central to this work. Its immediacy, fragility, and irreversibility mirror the conditions I am trying to capture. Each drawing records not only a place, but a moment of sustained looking—one that cannot be revised, only accepted.
These are not images of Paris as spectacle. They are drawings of Paris as felt experience: quiet, reflective, and briefly held before disappearing back into rain.