An ongoing series of drawings about signals and memory, encoding and interpretation, imagination and infrastructure. They depict virtualized spaces; landscapes filled with representations of conventional infrastructure like power cables, cell phone towers, airplanes and lightning rods. The drawings are figures of communication, as much as of interpretation. By this definition, they are also forms of infrastructure, because they are intentionally designed to do something.

The drawings are made with alcohol graphic markers. The dyes and solvents eat themselves over time, so in 3 to 75 years (depending on conditions of exposure) the colours will fade or disappear. Conservators call these “fugitive” colours because they escape the picture via chemical dissolution. Then, the drawings will primarily exist as photos and prints.

The drawings are drawn somewhere, usually my studio, but they are also drawings of somewhere, because they are landscapes. They are also drawn to someone, in the way that letters are written to someone. The drawings are textual: If language is the encoding of meaning into form (signals), drawing can be a linguistic practice. I don’t use dream imagery in the drawings, but they could be seen that way because many disparate parts are collected and depicted next to one another. If dreams are meaningful human-brain data-dumps, the drawings share space with dreams.