"Marks" is a collaborative drawing practice taking place in the space of entry and closure held between two solid book covers. It was initiated during the 8th Sowing Seeds International Artist in Residency Program at Art Junction near Udaipur, India.

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An important pillar in my artmaking is the drawing journal, which I use as a documentation of what surrounds me, states of mind, shifting perceptions and grasping or altering memory. Like a collection of traces and recordings, they often serve as the basis to develop a body of work. 

 

For my Residency at Art Junction, the journal was intended to be the actual body of work, using the Residencies short time frame of twelve days in my favor, by focussing on recording brief, personal and subjective impressions, which normally fade quickly into the numbness of familiarity. 

 

I was particularly interested in creating and receiving marks, dipping into both natural and social structures. Making a mark can be seen as  the most primitive and direct way of self expression and facilitates alternative ways of reflection and communication. 

 

This book holds marks of the land, marks that the pages themselves transferred onto each other, marks from the locals and from the schoolkids, who showed up very frequently and marks from my own impulses and responses. 

 

It remains at Art Junction with the objective that it may be further explored and extended by people stopping by, especially the school children. Though a co- creation, this started as a work that was directed through my lens, and will now be shaped by the lens of those who continue.