Quarles’ Collage Series was originally commissioned by Cecil Touchon's Santa Fe, NM gallery for a group show and later for a solo exhibition. The works focus on finding ways in which the materials at hand elicit their own voices and expressionisms in a conversation with the artist or viewer.
The Ink Series follows a long period of working in asemic or abstract writing techniques. Originally working on long sumi-e scrolls on rice paper, these works followed an even more "all-over" approach, while retaining many of the same writing, or calligraphy inspired methods of mark-making.