Roundness is everywhere. We live on a sphere revolving - traveling through space in elliptical orbits - with and around other revolving spheres. Nothing escapes the rhythm of the sphere - the cycles and seasons born from it. My work brings together the two-dimensional medium of drawing onto the three-dimensional form of the elliptical sphere - creating a singular unified expression. The egg - the elliptical sphere, is distillation of form to its essence - a timeless abiding calm in an increasingly complex and fractured world. I've always felt a certain restlessness drawing within the confines of the flat rectangular plane. The elliptical sphere allows the imagery to evolve and flow around the form, unobstructed by edges and corners. The shape becomes an active participant in the evolution of the drawing - compressing and expanding the imagery as it progresses around the form. Of the many methods and media with which I've experimented, nothing awakens and stirs the senses as this one does - it has never ceased to challenge and inspire the best of my abilities. I prefer the vellum like surface and smooth elliptical symmetry of duck eggs. Each measures a little more than two inches in height, at this scale the act of drawing becomes more intimate, is intensified: every touch, every line, takes on greater weight, wields a greater influence. As I draw, the surface resonates. Holding the egg in my left hand, I can feel the reverberation of my right-hand drawing - gliding across the surface. The elliptical sphere has grown to become as much a medium for being as it is for drawing. I love that a form so simple, common, and every day, would grow to become such an inexhaustible resource of inspiration and possibility. "As I draw, the surface expands - grows more vast. I hold in my hand a globe whose landscape I roam in solitary bliss. I love that place, what it asks of me, what I become in its presence." Through the years, what has emerged from my search for the origin of my attraction to the form, are these - what I believe to be - fundamental truths: The egg - is a vessel created to protect and nurture a life evolving. The egg becomes an elliptical sphere when emptied of its contents. No longer a vessel protecting and nurturing a life within, its utility transitions into form - becoming a (kind of) microcosm of our world - a natural creation with a continuous, uninterrupted surface - ideally suited to receive and convey the imagery of drawing. The elliptical sphere - is the expression of form in a state of becoming. The trajectory of the arc of its surface is variable and dynamic. A paradoxically infinite surface within a finite form. The sphere - is form reconciled. The trajectory of the arc of its surface is constant and resolved. I believe this absence of variability is the reason I've never felt compelled to draw on a sphere. The flat rectangular plane - is a construct - an abstraction devised by man to quantify the infinite. The functionality of the rectangle lies in its predictability and order. Note: Though nearly all of the work presented here are drawings on actual Duck eggs, I prefer to use the term "Elliptical Spheres," to describe the form.