What is Marrow Drift

Marrowdrift Studios is the creative home of R.K.B., a Jamaican-American artist, writer, and practicing attorney.

Born in Jamaica and brought to the United States at age four, R.K.B has lived along the spine of the East Coast of the U.S.—from New York, through Pennsylvania (Allentown, then Pittsburgh), and down to Wake Forest, North Carolina, where he  studied law.

A life spent crossing borders, some drawn on maps and others drawn by people, has left him with a particular interest in boundaries. How we make them, how we come to believe in them, and what happens when they begin to give way.

At Marrowdrift, R.K.B. paints, sculpts, draws, writes, and makes digital art. He carves into surfaces, layers pigments like sediment, and sometimes lets a form dissolve before it has quite finished becoming itself. Memory, culture, identity, perception, and time find their way into the work, though rarely in the same shape twice.

There is something of the lawyer in all this, certainly. An inclination to examine things, to pull at their seams, to ask what lies beneath the surface. But there is also the artist, who is perfectly willing to break that surface open to find out.

At Marrowdrift, the mind and the hand have made something of an agreement. Neither is particularly interested in leaving the other alone.