David Dobbs
Drawing/Painting
dobb0021@umn.edu
"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me
less." -Charles Lamb
In the D=rt series, I measure the amount of time I am drawing on a
piece, then multiply it by what I approximate the rate of my drawing to be,
measured by how much I have drawn in a minute. This allows me to get an
approximate distance for each piece and creates a new system for measuring
time. Time thus becomes a distance traveled instead of just an abstract,
relative concept. The wave pattern produced is an illustration of light,
how light is both a particle and a wave. I use light in many different ways
in the illustration of my work, whether it is using black marks on a white
canvas to play with light in a visual sense, tricking the brain into seeing
colors where there are none, using reflective paint to bounce light off of
the surface, or using similar colors to my canvas with my marks, so that
the marks are only visible in certain lighting. The process of making these
repetitive marks becomes a meditative act and then links the spiritual with
the physical.
