Enviro Drawings are site specific events documented by the artist as a means to explore atmospheric shifts, conceptual perspectives, and poetic visual narratives.
The term drawing is used broadly to describe site details that incorporate line or mark making, the layering or interweaving of impermanent and soft materials such as cloth, fiber, or paper, as well as compositions generated by the land or surface of bodies of water (with or without the aid of the artist). This activity is not necessarily a means to create art or environmental art. Instead, it aims to highlight phenomena that are often overlooked or overshadowed by a site’s history or intended use.
“I had worked in remote desert locales before, creating temporary, site-specific fiber installations crafted of lightweight materials such as handspun paper twine, plaited vegetation, and floating crocheted fiber. These on-site projects were a means of highlighting the fragility of desert ecosystems and the local flora and fauna subsisting therein. Fiber, as a construction material, allows me to interact unobtrusively with the surface of the land in partnership with sunlight, wind, and the shifting atmospheric conditions that shape an ecological zone. I am also fascinated by the potential that fiber forms have in colonizing an ecological state, without the sculptural imprints or permanent marks of other art processes.
Typically, I prepare for a new body of work by walking (lightly) on a site and observing and documenting (drawing and photographing) its textural qualities and features. I search for subtle traces of organic activity and connective threads that might otherwise be overlooked or ignored.” – from an interview with LAND Views journal
