DEGREE SHOW PREVIEW

String mare, degree show woes

I wanted to create a spatial drawing installation mimicking the affect of a closed- eye visual. My previous work has been involved with organic light forms, light rays, spots, shars, beams, delicate hints of after-image that we perceive.

My earlier work used pin-prick drawings, and string as a signifier of light and evocative of the intangible shapely forms of light. I wanted to draw with light, using the physical nature of light to propose image.

To develop my work, this semester I have used found and personal imagery, slices of portraits, hints at figuration to create these ethereal images, hazy traces of forms.

The notion of trace as art become of interest, as an experimentation of materials. I started to create hints of human trace, figurative forms with ethereal products. Creating pin - prick portraits, finger prints, spots of breath highlight this interest in a trace or aftermath of image. I also used to dust and grease to make figures, slides of memory that fade, disintegrate with time and motion.

String became my main material of choice. It is at once present and structural, and simultaneously flimsy, on the brink of collapse or 'snap'.
String started taking on a more symbolic role, the strands evoking the strands of time and memory.

Dust and grease drawings