Forwarding: Gates
Forwarding: Gates, 2023, aluminum, acid free binder’s board, MDF shelf, 128 1/2 in x 15 in x 3 3/4 in
Working Drawings for Forwarding: Gates, 2021, pen and ink, ink jet printing, carbon transfer, Gampi and Arches papers on Stonehenge paper (each 9 3/16 in x 6 5/8 in)
Between 2014 and 2022 a large part of my practice involved collaborating with a set of 306 shapes drawn in the late 19th-century by quilt-maker Rachel Blair Greene. This began with a work from the Piecework series called Correspondence and has continued through several projects grouped under the common title Forwarding.
Forwarding: Gates is an opportunity to see eleven of these shapes individually, without the structural complexity of the large groups in Forwarding I-XI or the interrelationships between pairs of contiguous shapes seen in Forwarding: Provisional Pairs. For Gates the shapes were laser-cut from thick sheets of aluminum and acid-free book-binder’s pressboard. The aluminum shapes were hand-polished to achieve a cloudy finish that holds the light so you can see right into and through them.
Each of the shapes seen here, and similarly in Forwarding: Lenses, has been chosen at random from one of the original eleven groups of Forwarding I-XI. Twenty seven other groups of shapes are possible and should be produced.
For more information about the connections between the various Forwarding projects please visit Forwarding Related Media.
Image Credits: Tom Powel Imaging and Sollins Studio
