Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Drawings

These drawings consist of two layers of paper. The front layer is a book page from which I have cut out the people and/or animals. The back layer is drawing paper on which I have painted the landscape that I imagine would have existed behind those people and/or animals.
As with most of my work over the past decade, these drawings explore the presence of absence. In removing the living objects, I do not negate their existance, but rather investigate the effect that they have had on their surroundings. The new landscapes become a dual narrative, simultaneously telling the story of what is missing and what is newly present.




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