Thought Lines Project
for
"Lines Lineage and Lore"
The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Showcase
Space Gallery . 9 April 2008 . 6pm

The RMWI is a community of artists, writers and scholars based on the concepts behind Virginia Wolf’s essay, “A Room of One’s Own.” Talent and creativity can flourish best when supported and encouraged with adequate resources. Each year, seven to ten Associates are selected in open competition. Winners receive stipends and support services to help them complete a yearlong creative project in the arts or letters. Associates’ works are exhibited at annual Showcase events: performances, readings, visual arts that are open to the public, at no charge.

My project as a 2007-2008 Associate is explore the function of line in art through a series of high detail drawings with red string taking the traditional symbolic role of lines. Each drawing will be a meditation on a different function of line: as halos, as tattoos, as puppet strings, as writing, as the plumb line of revelation by God, etc. This is based on the fact that line is a human construction; it exists in nature only as an optic illusion. Therefore its presence in art is our human way of converting what we see into codes on the paper, like writing, it shows that we are instruments of translation and everything we create is subjective. In some of the drawings apples appear instead of lines, drawing (no pun intedended) attention to it as a symbol of Adam and Eve's fall from the Garden of Eden and as wisdom. This compares the function of line and writting with the traditional role of wisdom as dangerous, enlightening and irresversible!

Please enjoy this page as I update new drawings for the project in anticipation of the spring 2008 showcase in Denver, CO. A link to the RMWI web page is listed in contacts.

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