I spent the summer of 2009 traveling across the United States to participate in two vastly different artist residencies in Santa Fe, NM and Seattle, WA. Likewise the drawings I made were inspired by two vastly different materials; linen and steel. The crisply wrinkled white linen I used while at the Santa Fe Art Institute worked for making long and stoic cloth garments. While a resident artist at the James Washington House in Seattle, I used steel to create rigid, polished and refined strips to make sculptural forms. These drawings show both a material and a climate progression. The warm unyielding southwestern sun and the cool damp northwestern climates parallel the differences that exist between linen and steel.