I made this group of scroll drawings thinking about how they engage with the wall, the floor and the space they occupy. Some of them hang on the wall but others extend over a section of the floor, suspend from the ceiling or lie entirely across the floor. You will see small sculptural objects that I made to accompany some of the drawings, either sitting on top of a section of the drawing, in front of the drawing or suspended behind it.

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This group of scroll drawings are on mulberry, a very light weight translucent paper, more commonly used for printmaking and chine colle. I was attracted to the fragility and absorbancy of the surface and the oppportunities and constraints those characteristics presented to me. The first several works in this group are two-sided scrolls that hang suspended from the ceiling and extend out in two directions across the floor. In each of these scrolls I decided to make one side for my extemporaneous writing and the other side for non-text drawing. I wanted to separate the cognitive/ thinking part of my work from the more tactile and sensual drawing and present them as two distinct experiences.

The other works shown here include a 5-panel scroll drawing that has one section that touches the floor with 4 smaller sections. The last work is a scroll that I made to be shown only partially unrolled so large sections of the work remain hidden.



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This 175 foot drawing is mounted on a table with cranks for scrolling through the work. The viewable area of this piece is exacting the same as the amount I had open while drawing. Each section is self-contained but relates to previous and subsequent parts. The translucent paper gives the viewer a “foreshadowing” of the future parts and a “memory” of the ones passed. Click image to see more views.