Rose Meyer

Ballpoint, paper, cardboard box, postal system (drawing device: wheels, wood, pen cartridge) 610 x 450 x 150mm 1.2 kg. Photo courtesy of artsdiary.co.nz

This work was journey specific and was created en route to the Wallace Awards by placing a wheeled drawing device into a box containing mounted paper and posting it to the venue.

The drawing is created by the accumulative marks made in transit between departure and arrival. This compression of journey into drawing is produced through both duration and distance and can be understood as both cartographic and seismographic in nature.

Because the work was selected for inclusion into the travelling show the drawing process continued in transit between venues, allowing the drawing to evolve over the course of the exhibition and become not just a record of the box’s journey from artist to Wallace, but also encompassing the time spent travelling with other artworks.