Cartigraphies of Persistence:
I am drawn to a model of reenactment, employing maps as a residual image through an everyday ritual of navigating spaces. Commencing January, 2010 (ongoing), an image was created each day for the exact amount of time containing lines, patterns and colours carried forward from the previous. Contemplating not only our personal patterns and repetitions of navigation, the drawings investigate our observations of space. These images form maps and histories that reveal encounters of signs, symbols and patterns found within our daily landscapes and act as a filter through which we see the landscape. Through the daily ritual of creating “Cartography of Persistence”, the viewer is left with a methodical collection of ideas and passages culminating from an ongoing journey. It conveys a sense of real or imaginary space, with one day transcending into the next.
Comprised of over 1,500 micro drawings, they are organized into gridded formations that serve to give sense of rational environmental context. Collectively, the drawings navigate the mutating information encountered through daily routine that reveal our personal landscapes.