Line : Edge

This study began with a series of x-ray perspectival drawings constructed through revealing only edges. The process of layering various edges begin to construct a spatial condition where edges can appear to move around, behind, through, out, or into the surface upon which they were drawn.

The notion of edges (lines) moving through space to form boundaries can be explored in three dimensions. By pulling the lines made from graphite out of the drawing plane into the z-direction with a stiff wire we have now another edge condition that exists without a normal surface background. When moving around the model, we experience the wire edges in fluctuation allowing several ways to perceive implied surfaces and depth.

This idea is then expressed in model form with wire, graphite and paper planes. Edges are moving through space, onto and through surfaces of this small environment.

- by Allison Johnson