My work arises from drawing and the observation of things, the illusion of the three dimensional object depicted in line. I am interested in exploring the illusionary transition from three dimensional space to the two dimensional surface and subverting this by creating three-dimensional drawings.

I do this using lines of thread on an x and y axis  precisely placed to create the illusion of the object. Using only horizontal and vertical lines (x and y), but no z axis, necessitates the viewer to complete the illusion. Thus the object is not only illustrated, but also part imagined, existing as a three-dimensional object, a visual illusion and a conceptual image.

Importantly I endeavor to restore the object or the thing to the ‘haptic’ or close to, not simply letting it to dissolve into its immediate surroundings, as when we apply devices such as perspective, but existing in the vastness of space and time. I wish to allow the thing to inhabit its own poetic space, that evokes humanity, our relationship to our ancestors, place, memory and identity.

 

“Things.

When I say that word (do you hear?), there is a silence; the silence which surrounds things. All movement subsides and becomes contour, and out of past and future time something permanent is formed: space, the great calm of objects which know no urge.

But no, you do not yet feel the silence falling. The word “things” passes you by, it has no meaning for you: it means too much, all of this lacks significance. And so I am glad I have appealed to childhood; perhaps it will help me bring home to you this word, something precious linked with many memories.”

                                                                                                             Rainer Maria Rilke

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