– Transparent Territory
– Vehicle
– Calligraphy and Cartography
– Nearfar Object
– Ecstatic Cartography
– Feral Map
– Vertical Aerial
– Agglomorate
– Depths in Feet
– Garden Carpet / Prayer Carpet
– Sculpture
– Vehicle
– Calligraphy and Cartography
– Nearfar Object
– Ecstatic Cartography
– Feral Map
– Vertical Aerial
– Agglomorate
– Depths in Feet
– Garden Carpet / Prayer Carpet
– Sculpture
DEPTHS IN FEET – Depths in Feet
is an ongoing series of collaged drawings (2015 – 2017), in which areas indicating
masses of water and ocean is collected from a wide variety of maps. The
depiction of water in
cartographic practice is something of a contradiction in terms. As a fluid,
ephemeral entity, water refuses mark making and a certainty of form.
It is the
un-map-able that is contained within the map itself. The drawings are made by
using the cartographic borders contained in these fragments as a ‘found line’
and stringing them together to create new cartographies. Each work aims to
explore a different pictorial illusion and spatial proposition. These illusions
of volumes and interiors are constructed to contradict and subvert the inherent
flatness of the maps that they are.
‘
When
an echo bounces off a wall, the ephemerality of a sound is reflected off the
solidity and geometry of a physical environment, a voice physically meets
context, defining the space between sender and surroundings. ‘Sounding’, the practice
of using sound to measure depth in a body of water, utilizes the echo, by
bouncing sound off against the seabed and ‘catching’ it, as it returns to the
sender. The water is measured without physically entering it, yet the unit of
calibration used to define the depths in water necessarily involves the body –
measured in feet or fathom, nomenclature plunges the body into the depths, even
if only symbolically. The body is implied even where the body cannot go.
’
- Artists statement included as insert in the Depths In Feet publication,
published on the occasion of the Echo Geometry solo exhibition,
Goodman Gallery 2015
- Artists statement included as insert in the Depths In Feet publication,
published on the occasion of the Echo Geometry solo exhibition,
Goodman Gallery 2015
Depths in Feet (Triangulation), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 28,5cm on board
55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Distance), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
36,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Linger), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Dwell), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
36,5 x 27,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Proximity), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
23,5 x 36cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Echo), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
36 x 27cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Angular Flourish), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
36.5 x 27cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Enclose), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
35 x 26cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Ripple), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
28 x 36.8cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Spread), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37 x 29cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Cavity), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
36 x 29,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Excavation), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
40 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Corner), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 27,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Double Corner), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Double interior), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37 x 29cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Angle), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
31,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Interior), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
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Depths in Feet (Horizons), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37,5 x 28,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Aggregate), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
34,5 x 25,5cm on board 55 x 55cm
Depths in Feet (Expanse), 2015
Cut and reconstituted map fragments
37 x 29cm on board 55 x 55cm
Echo Geometry, 2016
Cut and Reconstituted Map Fragments
120 x 180cm
Echo Geometry 2016 builds on the Depths in Feet drawings, an ongoing series of collaged drawings, produced
from 2015, in which areas depicting masses of water and ocean is collected from
a broad variety of maps. The depiction of water on most geographical maps is a
contradiction in terms. As a fluid, ephemeral entity, water refuses mark making
and a certainty of form. It is essentially the un-map-able that exists within
the map itself. Once excised from its geological context, the shards of ocean
carry only the semiotic coloration, the faint blues and dirty greens that mark
the depths that they signify.
