Lineworks

The theme of this series of drawings and paintings on paper in ink called Lineworks centers on the expressive qualities of line, its ability to capture a subject quickly and its relationship with shape. Line is a fascinating and fundamental tool of drawing that can be used in so many ways and is a working horse of drawing. I am interested in the variation and sensitivity of line. Moreover, each drawing is hung on clothesline wires with clothespins to represent daily work and form a pattern of repetition much like a calendar spread out in continuity, forming other visual lines. The daily drawings form a visual diary and reinvestigate the curiosity I still carry for the human figure and the implications of using human anatomy to express any idea, particularly feminine sensibilities, which is echoed in the choice to display the work on traditional clotheslines. Instead of drying laundry, the clotheslines display drawings and the work I have chosen to do with my life instead of more traditional roles women can play.

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