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Tumbleweeds is a collection of large-scale drawings based on the relationship between the image and the body. It functions as a representation of the concepts of signifier (format), signified (concept), and sign (the combination of signifier and signified as one meaningful unit).

Tumbleweeds is taken from distant memories of being the desert: the quality of the line and sharp contrast of light and dark. They are physical interpretations of a cyclical revisiting of memory. The desert is a place of vast expanse and timelessness, an immense landscape of intertwined existence. The work plays with the representation of shifting memories, applying these as drawing techniques: the central focus of the line, carving sharp traces through both applying pigment and taking it away, size as nuanced echo of desert as site, etc. It is important to me that the creation of these drawings echoes the physical impressions of the site on the body, my own, relived through the making of these works along the same efforts: the dryness of desert climate and graphite powder, the constant dust of sand and graphite, the strain on the body while moving throughout the space, the shimmering effects of the sun through thin lines of gold, the atmospheric perspective mirrored in the soft application of layers of powder, the monumental size and the vastness of landscape. The reinterpretation of the image into new formats leads to exposing new depths of the concept of the image as a framing of morphing layers of memory and reality.

The work itself is first made as a blind drawing of friction on paper, as seen in the short video clip. It is built in layers of volume and line, of powder and eraser and of paint and pressed graphite. With an eraser, I both add and take away, building layers of movement that can be seen with every added layer and material. It is a physical process that requires stamina and force, a constant shifting of perspective from close to far to close again. It is a ritual of entering into a situation with the work and creating as much distance as the studio space and time will allow. All the while I think about how life was and how life is, bringing into focus these glimpses of memory through provocations of texture, light, contrast, and physical exertion. The colours are monochrome metallic graphite, pressed soft graphite, and gold and silver pigment.

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