Senior Thesis Exhibiton 

Drawing Concentration

 

I am compelled by the diverse ways we understand traveling through space and how to graphically represent navigation, memory, (dis)orientation, and the passage of time. The relationship between a map and the territory it represents fascinates me;  for my exhibition, Traces, I focused on the path I walk daily, from my home to my studio, and used drawing methods to translate my route into different types of mapping systems. One image is reduced to  a solitary, quavering line.  Another panoramic drawing represents the terrain so specifically, that every blade of grass  and stone is represented, life-sized. Drawing is the perfect visual language for me because of its primacy and immediacy; it has allowed me to conceptually situate myself and explore the basic physical realities of taking a walk.