bearing:
The bearings drawings are an ongoing group of site-specific drawings pertaining to finding my bearings within particular places. The drawings have been a practice of grounding myself in space and paying attention to my perceptions of the spaces I inhabit by observing and isolating the simplest parts of each interior of where the drawings have been made.
Formal in appearance, the drawings are conceptually based in practices of perception and awareness – exploring external space as a means to accessing internal understanding and presence. The drawings portray more a sense of spatial geometry than architectural form: how I visually experience space rather than an accuracy of measurement. They have been made from a sense of intuitional perceived proportion as opposed to being drawn to scale.
bearing includes seven sets of bearings drawings: caldera cabin, caldera studio, moiese cabin, butler creek cabin, wolf street, rock cove, and brink. While these drawings have been made over the past two years, showing them for the first time as the inaugural exhibition at The Brink Gallery feels more than appropriate – The Brink finding and establishing its own bearings. A newly created space, ripe with potential and without preconceived expectations, the exhibition has been developed to incorporate the gallery and maintain openness in terms of its possibility.
