Exhibitions > Deep Down Size

Deep Down Size
Divisible Projects
Dayton, Ohio
June 2023

Making these drawings is an act of retracing to follow matrilineal lines of knowledge and interest. The drawings are also self-portraits- my studio, my dresser, the view from my seat at the table.

Each drawing uses wet and dry media to illustrate the image. The wet media can make the paper come alive, warping and bending. The dry media allows me to mimic a stitch, a measurement, a contour. I am quilting with colored pencil, nodding to my lineage but doing it in a way that fits me. I collage older drawings onto the larger works, allowing me to move back and forth through time.

There is slippage between the painted form and contour line; it is a place between versions of things. Here is the mutability of the experience of being in a room, the photograph of a room, and the memory of a room. It is also the ability of an object to hold idiosyncratic meaning for one person, while shifting when the object is inherited. Sentimentality lies deep down, it dissolves when the object changes hands. Former utilitarian use becomes secondary to the new primacy as a holder of memory. What do you do with an heirloom quilt?