mapping…
I have been making these strange map-like drawings.
Michael and I have been talking about the nature of this seeming pseudo scientific “study” I am undertaking. It’s somehow anthropological and, of course, contrived. I really am sort of finding out what I am doing as I go and am enjoying the process of exploration. They remind me a bit of a Russian artist who was very well-represented at the Venice Biennale this year, Pavel Pepperstein:
an image I took of one of his pieces in the Russian Pavilion
and also the drawings of Nedko Solakov, to whom Mark and I were introduced (his work, not him unfortunately) at documenta 11 in 2007:
I admire the work of both artists very much, and though I am not consciously trying to emulate their invented documentary-like drawings, I do see the connection. This is my favorite one so far though my little point-and-shoot camera doesn’t capture it very well:
