In the repetitive, task oriented approach I chose for this body of work, I am in relationship with both time and labour. In one sense, I am literally marking time–what remains on the drawing surface is a record of time passing. I am also leaving a visible record of labor–labour undertaken voluntarily for its own sake without a predetermined visual outcome.
In this working process a new kind of space –or field is created. A field that could extend past the edges of the rectangular form. The . What appears on the drawing surface might only be a part or segment of something larger, infinitely larger, with no boundaries. These marks made by a hand moving through space in time could go on forever.
Anne Petrie 