INK ON PAPER · 2026
Containment Lines
Containment Lines — Ink on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm, 2026
Geometric straight lines attempt to impose order on eroding, fragmentary topography. Curved organic forms push against the boundaries created by geometric structure. The composition is a struggle between two contradictory logics: the desire to contain and organize versus the reality of dissolution and disorder.
Neither logic wins fully. The lines do not contain the organic forms; erosion does not obliterate structure. They coexist in uneasy tension, each acknowledging the other’s power.
Containment Lines: the futility of control against geological forces — a tension that can never be resolved, only briefly suspended.
Containment Lines shows order’s last resistance — geometric lines attempting to contain eroding topography. Neither logic wins; they coexist in uneasy tension, briefly suspended, never resolved.
Containment Lines is part of Cartography of Collapse, a series of 16 original ink drawings on paper (2026) tracing geological transformation from formation through dissolution. Created in a single session without revision — the irreversible line mirroring the irreversibility of geological processes.
Each drawing is improvised, capturing moments in matter’s transformation across deep time. The series moves in two acts: Igneous (formation, density, compression) and Erosion (dissolution, dispersal, return to void).
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