I have always looked to my relationship
with Nature as a way of understanding myself and my place
in the world. Recently, I have been considering how the
development of spoken and written language has affected
our ability and desire to participate in a relationship
with Nature. The development of language has refocused
our attention away from sensory interactions and has forced
us to think of Nature as more inanimate object than as
living, breathing and communicating. If our relationship
with Nature can only be developed outside of spoken and
written language, what else of our lives exists there
that may only be understood in the moments between the
words?
The space
between is a series of drawings that attempt to
capture a moment in the life of an event, not of a particular
event, but of any as it occurs in time. —Things
that happen to us; decisions we make; truths we bear.
The drawings seek to express these moments apart from
the ends that define them, leaving them at various stages
of becoming. In isolation, each might seem to lead anywhere
and hold the qualities of the space between all possible
connections, at the moment before we know it.
The drawings are graphite on mylar. The graphite is laid down
on the surface and manipulated with solvent —
each drawing existing for only a moment within the process
of the drawing before it is either captured or disappears.
