These folded gestures (ballpoint pen on 8x11 tracing paper) are the first of many visual and sculptural studies exploring the effect of THE FOLD on subjectivity and ontology—but within the realm of the personal. The process begins with a set of gestural drawings, modeled after a photography series of myself and artist Maria Mosier intertwining/wrestling in space. Each line is a body. And then the paper is folded. Isolated gestures touch due to the material properties of the tracing paper—the fold folds us into a visual space where one pose, one gesture, one body, becomes visually perceptible as many. The fold duplicates, triples, expands our vision vertically in space, while also shrinking horizontally. The folded frozen gestures become bodies in flux, a subject with distances and proximities to its many iterations but across one visual plane.

Thank you Maria for intertwining. I never would have begun to fold without our movement.