Encounter

During my residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the U.S. in 2022 and 2024 I experienced drawing as a mode of living. Drawing as a heterotopia—a counter-space to the everyday world, the “Real World,”—runs parallel to life itself. Drawing and life both range from relentless struggling to weightless flying, holding potential.

On the wall, embossed forms with a transparent, yet absent and present quality inhabit the sheets. They encounter black watercolor forms; they hit, collide, intertwine, are being shaped and shape. 

In the artist’s book, the same forms are present. The sequencing and moving in time and space across the pages refer back to the processuality and complexity of drawing as of life: The transparent Japanese paper lets drawings shine through. The following drawings are being forshadowed and new drawings, which do only exist through layered pages, are brought forward.