That which something else passes through
The dark portals in this series share one parameter in common: “That which something else passes through”. This includes windows, rain gutters, the lock to my late grandfather’s woodshop, architectural structures, weavings, and fence post holes, among others. These three-dimensional spaces and objects transform into black, ambiguous portals. My sources are a combination of the prosaic, but personally meaningful, and the historically significant, such as ancient loom weights in a museum. Context is the only real difference, and conceptual unification happens through a combination of myopic and universal symbols. That which is passed through is not only meant literally – we complete this action through the immaterial as well: time, light, relationships, et. al.
At the time that this series was created (2021), there was a global emotional need to begin processing the impact of the pandemic and learn to live within a “new normal.” The drawings are a meditation on feeling sucked into a formless space, floating within it, and finding ways to feel grounded within this vacuous process. The drawn weavings are metaphors for interconnectedness, referencing the communal support networks that developed in the wake of this global catastrophe.
