Shodo Terra

Four from series.

Shodo Terra (Ink Drawing Earth) combines three registers of “information” evoking three vastly different “time lines.”

–Calligraphy approach to recording a river’s path. The fluid ink echoing (in microcosm) the paths of water over the planet = Earth’s Time.

–Physics Formulas from a basic Physics texbook referencing the “nature and properties of matter and energy” march along the paper forming a guiding line: The formulas = Cosmos Time.

–Penciled locations of the cities that sit along the river. The youngest and most frail marking of the earth, referencing our short time on this planet = Human Time.

Ongoing series, each: 6 x60″ Xerox, ink and graphite on Kitakata paper. 2018-