Years: 2015
A series of large, three-dimensional sculptural drawings. Ink drawings of fragments of swamp vegetation, detached from their original environment, were created on drawing paper that was deliberately compressed into wooden planks. Upon completing the drawing process, geometric sections were removed from the surfaces and replaced with plates containing active magnets.
The stranger within us is a central motif in the artist's drawings. The act of drawing itself is connected to a sign or code, tattooed onto the material, while foreign particles are inserted into its empty spaces. Sound diagrams of varying lengths were etched into the drawing surface, transforming it into a coded sculptural and musical relief.
These works deal with the material body, over-charged due to the constant contradiction and tension within. The foreign particles embedded in it symbolize fragments from another – frozen – time. The work addresses the conflict created by repressed and compressed life material, which is folded and encoded within the original body by means of constant tension and resistance.