The Drawing Conclusions show

I recently took part in a group drawing show curated by Angela Enman. It brought together a mix of artists using varried mediums to exploring mark making and drawing processes. Drawing can be as traditional as marks on paper, but it does not need to be limited to this, since it has more to do with being engaged, the process, markmaking (which is also a very slippery term to try to nail down). Everyone involved in the show had vastly different work, some of the drawings were created outside the gallery, quite a few were site specific.

Those of us creating work in that would only exist in the gallery for the duration of the show had from sunday morning to monday morning to "draw", which meant an all nighter for Dan, Abby and I. Despite the lack of sleep we had a lot of fun. Abby helped me nail over 200 nails into a frame I needed to install, turns out she has wood working experience. She was a lot quicker about it than I was, and I am so grateful! She also helped me fend off very drunk men who kept hitting on us in the courtyard while we were trying to get the work done. We were a odd sight, two determined girls hammering nails into long white boards outside the bars on granville in the middle of the night for what must have seems like no apparent reason. We did get a lot of questions and curious looks.

Just as we finished our work the skys opened up and it continued to rain for the next two days. I was glad for it, I love the rain. When I got tired I ran out into it, the plesant chill on my skin helped keep me alert. Sometimes I'd stand at the doors of the gallery looking out for a bit, then stand outside looking in. I like the space between. Abby was dancing in the gallery between drawing, I think she must be in love.


Dan was generally cranky about his computer, but I can't blame him, as always anything that could go wrong with his computer did go wrong. In the end his drawings were fantastic, they looked cellular and organic. I don't think he knows it yet, but he's going places.

The opening the next day went well, there was a good turn out regardless of the heavy rain and people seemed excited. My friend Nikolai made it out, and made a point to tell me he "wasn't bored", which may sounds bad, but really isn't. We've all been to way too many boring shows, where we just haven't felt engaged. Unfortunately, and as much as I hate to admit it, this is often the case.

My work: I used threads as 2d lines and pulled them out into three dimensional space. They moved out and away from themselves at every point, resulting in a form that was airy, but felt like an explosion of line and loosely defined planes. I was exploring themes of space time and the fabric of reality with this drawing. I may try to do another drawing with yarn in the future, when the time constraints aren't so tight.

Unfortunately my photos don't do it justice, they flatten out something that was meant to be viewed at different angles and interacted with. So all of you who missed the show, sorry you're out of luck. I'll put up some longer shots later though.

Abby and her work: it's made of magnetite circle she extrated from beach sand near her home.She had a huge pendulum shift it around during the opening.