Fountain and Swan Boats, Lake Eola
Indian ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 in.

Mt Diablo in the Horizon
felt pen on paper

Horse Rider
charcoal pencil on color paper

Jumping the Horse
charcoal Pencil on colored paper

*Crow in Flight, 1*
charcoal pencil on color paper

*Crow in Flight, 2*
charcoal pencil on color paper

Crow in Flight, 3
charcoal pencil on color paper

Fig Tree Silhouette
charcoal pencil on color paper

Michelle Lynn Jacobson

born 1992, Los Angeles

based in San Francisco (Bayview)

As a California native, the ocean has been a perennial presence in my life and its capacity to consume me in its power and cleanse my senses has been my most steady source of healing. Swimming and surfing have become lifelong rituals. After moving from LA to the Bay Area in 2019, my relationship to the ocean has become more distant. Though the ocean is still so close, cold and fog now stand between me and the water — the cold piercing my skin and the fog keeping me from the sun’s warming rays.

Through drawing and the practice of repetitive and meditative mark-making I am able to retreat into a meditative space that evokes my time alone on a surfboard, waiting to catch a wave. Patterns and rhythms emerge, spilling out over the paper with no clear end in sight. Like the ocean, my drawing practice grounds me, and provides me a sense of continuity and healing.