Intimate Pockets of Space
My motivation for making these drawings came from an interest in using an indirect process to create a tactile compositional space with marks and lines. The plate used to create these images was a large sheet of plexi-glass incised with lines made from exacto-knives and razor blades. The layering of cuts in the plexi-glass is accumulation of marks made over time by a variety of people who used the plexi-glass as a cutting surface. The lines vary in their length, direction, and density.
I used graphite on vellum to make rubbings on top of the plexi-glass surface. I found that the layered marks create a spatial structure that is similar to a traditional perspective drawing but free of the content and narrative of time and place. These compositions can be read as intimate pockets of space or portals into immense depth. Either way, they point to our capacity to perceive space and to orient ourselves in both a literal and universal way.