SCROLLS

My scored scroll works are panoramic visualizations of natural forces—energies that prefigure and exceed human expression. They map the reverberations between people and the environments that shape us, creating spaces where accumulated movement, atmosphere, and attention become visible.

Each scroll is inscribed with a musical composition created collaboratively between myself and my son, the improvisational multi-instrumentalist Solomon Kimrey. I perform the upright bass and percussion on these scores, while Solomon develops the arrangements and additional instrumentation. The scrolls and their musical notations evolve together: drawing, gesture, and sound forming a single field of improvisation, response, and resonance.

The works draw on the sensibility of musical notation and invocation. They function as poetic scores—songs of witness to a shifting world and meditations on equanimity in the face of change. Calligraphic glyphs anchor and bless the space, while currents of mark-making flow, settle, dissolve, and re-form. Each scroll becomes an extended field of motion and stillness, a devotional act toward landscape and its continual transformation.

Ranging from twenty to fifty feet in length, the scrolls resist being taken in at a glance. Their horizontal expanse echoes epic poems, long stories told in open air, and the slow scanning of horizon lines. They require room to breathe—open, uncluttered spaces that honor their scale and pace.

Yet their modest height, typically ten to thirty-six inches, draws the viewer into a more intimate relationship. This contrast between panoramic length and human-scaled height invites both immersion and closeness, encouraging the viewer to travel the scrolls with their body as well as their eyes.