Spatial Drawing

Traveling the Trails

Year
2017
Medium
Digital vinyl print of oil pastel drawings, 34 × 2 m
Context
Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project with URBAN AGENCY: living laboratory, Centre for Art, Society and Transformation, RMIT
Venue
A'Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne
A long printed line drawing along a basketball court, with people sitting on a bench
Traveling the Trails, 2017

Traveling the Trails depicts a celestial journey across space and time, from the far reaches of the galaxy to our present being on Planet Earth. As the viewer’s gaze moves along the canvas, they journey from beyond our solar system to arrive at our city, before travelling down to the Earth’s core.

The hand-drawn lines have a free-flowing and organic form, suggesting my interest in Ikebana. Conceptually, these lines represent the flow of life connecting the individual to the universal, the cosmopolitan to the cosmic. The work invites viewers to reflect upon life, human connection and the universe while moving through a busy urban space.