Threshold

Threshold    2016    chalk pastel on paper   13x13"

This is one of my favorite recent drawings. This piece was a turning point in the series, both in color and mark-making  The dust that had accumulated on my studio floor helped obscure the hard edges between floorboards, and my experience of perception was one of shifting color fields rather than clearly defined space.

Each pastel in this series shares a horizon line - the imperfect boundary between wall and floor extends from one piece to the next in an unending line. When arranged side by side, they give the illusion of an unending vista: a continual loop following the path of the baseboard around the room.  

No matter what else I do, I always come back to the baseboard. This imperfect space between wall and floor is so ubiquitous as to be nearly always overlooked. Every interior space has that sliver where the wall meets the floor, but how often do you actually stop to consider it? My hope is that these fragments of space serve as a point of departure for meditation: on the imperfect boundaries of existence, on the neglected liminal moments that make up the majority of our days, on ambiguity, betweenness, and the constant search for clarity. The lack of corners makes the depicted space forever incomplete – ever outwardly expanding beyond our peripheral vision along a constant horizon line – all encompassing, engulfing. Time stretches out in either direction.