Notes Noted
Notes Noted, Typewriter ink on paper roll, 230mm x ~6500mm x ~12yrs (2012 to present)
A work always in process, reading through notebooks and re-noting things that still resonate after the passage of time. The slow act of typing them into an undated stream of text serves to not only eliminate any hierarchy between mundane life, academia, art making, or life changing events but is also a revisitation of self in an earlier state, recapturing ideas, re-examining thoughts and reformatting them to be lost again in the dense texture of type.
Tāmaki Makaurau’s 53 Volcanos
Tāmaki Makaurau’s 53 Volcanos, Ink on paper in bound book, 90 x 190 x 210mm
Hand-etched ghost printed topographic contour maps from Auckland Council’s GeoMaps, aligned with Dr Ferdinand von Hochstetter’s 1859 map of the isthmus of Auckland.
What started as a wondering about the volcano outside my window grew into a way of wandering the isthmus through map lines and contour drawings, discovering limitations in the language of drawing to ever encompass something as vast and ever changing as the landscape.
Here in book form, the maps are combined as one, each map when unfolded centred and aligned, a condensed landscape of line, mark making and history.
Shown at Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Quarried
Quarried, Silverpoint on Fabriano, originally 2000 x 1410mm cut to 100 x 100mm
I find Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanic landscape fascinating, not only in its history of explosive force and molten rock that formed the hills and valleys in which I live, but also in the contour lines that make up the topographical maps seen and measured via satellite. Their twisting lines reveal a landscape that has been altered from its geological beginnings, some quarried away piece by piece till flat, others hidden beneath bodies of water.
Here satellite contour maps of each of Tāmaki Makaurau’s volcanoes have been centred on a single point, their peaks and troughs existing all together at a single location.
This drawing has been cut into 280 10 x 10mm squares echoing the quarrying of many of the volcanoes themselves. As these fragments disperse, much like the rock taken from the volcanoes, they will scatter to unknown locations and become part of other places.
home/space
home/space (blue-prints), 1020W x 1160H Ink on Fabriano
home/həʊm/noun
1. the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.
space/speɪs/noun
2. the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.
These houses, their layouts drawn from my imperfect memory and printed to highlight the spaces I moved within, gather here as a mapping of my experiences. My transitory history through suburb, town, and city and my encounters with homespace.
home/space 270W x 210H x 90Dmm 4.3kg Perspex and pine
Home/Space At MMCA Award January 2024
Rose Meyer 