Common Threads
2021
Photographic Installation
216 photographs of red thread and shadows on canvas, printed on backlit paper, contained in red cardboard box, displayed on LED light tablet placed upon birch table
Photographs: each 8 x 8 cm; box: 10 x 10 x 4.5 cm; light tablet: 59.5 x 59.5 x 0.8 cm; table: 59.5 x 59.5 x 44 cm
Common Threads is a research-based work that examines philosophies of mark-making in contemporary drawing: What is a line and how does the body draw? How does a drawing unfold over time and what happens when the sequence is changed? What takes place when we retrace and alter another's lines? By examining such questions through a series of interactive, permutable photographs, the work also insists that drawing is a process--one that unfolds in time--rather than an outcome.
