Artist Statement - Linescapes

For several years I have used transparent and semi-transparent adhesive tape, primarily from Mexico City,
to make works that evoke both painting and drawing.

In each work in the Linescapes series, I use a different kind of transparent adhesive tape, layered horizontally,
to create a quietly undulating landscape of line, form and tone.   These landscapes allude to vast expanses
of sand, sea, sky and snow, as well as suggest an inner meditative space.

The series also engages ideas from the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.   For me,
the proliferation of lines in each of piece forms what they call a plateau, a part of a plane of immanence
on which intensities and waves circulate and flow.

Finally, I want the unexpected sensuality of the material to engage viewers in ways that are environmental,
temporal and mutable.