The Scribe series consists of ink drawings and digital prints on Kozo paper. The text embedded in the work refers to ‘doing’ practices within drawing and installation processes, becoming part of the many layered surfaces of marks, embossings, and brushstrokes.
Each piece features rhythmical flicks or painted gestures layered into graphite rubbings and embossings. Graphite is delicately rubbed across the surface to reveal words, which are then obscured into oblivion through layers of gouache marks and flicks. The drawing process unfolds through a chain of actions—moving from one material to another, one mark to another, one image to another, and eventually, from one page to the next. The work speaks through a language of gestures and bodily functions embedded throughout.
The text lists a range of drawing methods, including:
“Writing, scribbling, engraving, etching, embossing, rubbing, erasing, scoring, burnishing, burning, sanding, pressing, printing, layering, hiding, filling, ripping, cutting, plastering, collaging, swiping, scraping, flicking, stitching.”
Installation methods are similarly expressed:
“Pulling, twisting, tying, re-tying, knotting, undoing, re-knotting, snipping, cutting, stretching, wrapping, binding, tightening, slacking, weaving, throwing, dropping, climbing, leaning, clinging, aching, shouting, screaming, sweating.”
The text has been both written and drawn—conceived as a visual act rather than conventional writing—and appears in English, Norwegian, Japanese, and Persian.