Charting
the Invisible Landscape
Maps, charts or ciphers have been used throughout
time to represent the known and unknown worlds—fragmentary
drawings to Portolan charts and Mercator’s Atlas. Charting
the Invisible Landscape brings together two bodies of work that employ some of the traditional iconography
of maps (legends, grids, floor
plans,wind roses,
land masses, town plats, satellite imagery), but also move beyond
literal representation
of
specific physical locations and landmarks to chart the deeper,
more subjective
and unreliable landscapes of emotion, imagination, and memory.
The Cartography paintings represent the physical spaces and
places
where
we live, move
about and name. The Cosmology paintings pursue more esoteric
ideas of boundaries, connectedness and the realm of the unexplained.
Both series
of paintings pursue the question of how we locate ourselves
in
space and time. As the paintings move away from the known
and into the
unknown invisible worlds, forms dissolve into the ether becoming
reduced to
the most essential elements.
