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Ink, Matte medium transfer, rubber stamps & film stills
The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.
Everyday people come and go, walk by you with out noticing. Other's stick, that is they stick around. These are friendships, relationships and other forms of togetherness. Togetherness is made up of time, adventure, effort, support and human interaction. Human interaction consequentially results in human error, which makes us vulnerable to falling apart, hurting and words that are left unspoken, but inevitably left in the mind of those who experience it. Togetherness, for me, is a way to attempt to understand and accept the constant flux between others and me in my life and the tension I face between accepting loss and embracing change.
This transient drawing works to capture this timeline of events of a relationship through means of two people walking and interacting with a mutual object, a rope. The video, film stills and concrete drawing act as permanent records of this interaction of people with the rope and with each other. Rope is used to highlight their movement through space as they approach one another in the center and sequentially unravel from their meeting point.
The movements are captured and represented through the stills of the rope on paper where the illustration of figures is subtracted, but alluded to through the various shapes and form of the drawn rope. It both demonstrates the cooperation and coordination of the two people holding the rope, while highlighting human error. The process of drawing, scanning and transferring images of the rope to the final surface mimics the consistent, repetitive and exhaustive process of going over a moment in the past. Further, words are stamped amongst the records of the rope to give a voice to what is unspoken and who has been left without a chance to speak.
2014