If Walls Could Talk
A wall is constructed to act as container for forms, events, and interactions inside. An entire history is developed inside a space you walk into – and a history was unknown to me before I entered Ross Camp. On the surface of a wall, on an area that measured 7 feet, 2 inches by 10 feet, 10 inches, I created a drawing that would be developed into a stop-motion animation. Over many days and drawing sessions, I created movement through my drawn marks. Each mark I made on the wall was one that could not be fully removed; the charcoal acted as a marker for past actions, and I adapted to it, and built onto it. There was a rhythm of the back and forth between drawing surface and camera in an attempt to document the physical changes. Assembling the photos together was like stitching together a memory for reflection; unclear of events passed but searching for a resolution for the future. Each of us carries our experiences with us. We are all built on our past actions, thoughts, and feelings. We each have created an enriched history and trace of being in this world. We are each so focused on our own individual histories that we rarely realize how much we are intimately bound to each other, like ligaments that connect separate bones to each other underneath our skin within our own bodies. These connections we know exist and make our physical existence possible, but they occur underneath the surface of our own forms, quietly and constantly linking and creating movement.