Borderlands (2024)
Frith Street Gallery, London (2024)
Laser engravings on sandpaper. Series of 7 frames
25 x 30 x 5 cm / 9 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 2 in (each)
Borderlands is a series of seven laser engravings on black sandpaper. Rendered black on black, the hard-to-decipher drawings riff off medieval depictions of animals where the intended creature and its depiction only nominally match. A leopard with a human-like face, a snake that resembles a dragon, an owl with a moustache interact with diagrammatic time cones. All of these are merely approximations of their intention (whether creature or time), and each allows us to both fix a possibility as well as to expand a horizon.