Perimeter

A Proposal for the DeRicci Gallery at Edgewood College

Perimeter is composed of several layers of ink drawing on mylar that utilizes photographic imagery gathered over the last year from the perimeter of several local bodies of water, including lakes Mendota, Monona and the Yahara River, which I walk on a daily basis. By stitching together imagery from one perimeter and transposing it to another, I am hoping to use the edges of the gallery as a space to think about the places where our culture and geography overlap.

In general, I utilize drawing, painting, and sculptural practices as a way to mirror natural and cultural events and build form in a complex way: repeating, distorting, accumulating, assembling, scattering or layering information in resonant matrices. I start from everyday observations and materials that draw from my immediate environment. In the case of Perimeter, the process of drawing allows me to connect and layer all these little photographic events and allows the viewer to see them in a new way: as an accumulated image of fluctuating boundaries between land and water, liquid and solid, the cultural and the natural.

A map with links to a selection of geo-tagged photos that were used to make this drawing can be found here.