“Vapor”
Water as space.
Surface to volume.
Mass of chroma.
Suspended from many thousands of points in the ceiling, fine delicate thread lines create a floating volume of color. Subject to gravity, the internal structure of this form is difficult to comprehend and collect at any given moment or vantage point. I am interested in that mystery and intangibility. What results is a fleeting, ethereal collection of particles, dissolution – vapor. In this work, my curiosity gravitated toward conditions of architecture, optics, visual phenomena, drawing in space and an expression of water as light. I have challenged myself with questions of scale, color, process, density and proportion in the making of this installation. Optically, Vapor responds to light and sculpturally it answers to air movement. Tender, liquid, abstract, manic.
I frequently return to the subtle distinction between drawing as noun and verb as a long held focus in my studio practice. This blurred distinction drives my fascination with an expanded definition of drawing languages and the resurgence of drawing in contemporary art. My collective body of work is an iteration of this language – a reassertion of the age-old desire to understand self in place. -Anne Lindberg
