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Holly Chambers



Holly Chambers approaches drawing by simply drawing a line. However, through an obsessive process of repetition the line is contorted and a form, or rather a surface is brought into existence.

 The work is thrown into the world of illusion, but remains rooted in a process that allows and encourages the compositions of the drawings to appear organically. The works exist as testaments of endurance, as often each line is repeated until the ink or the paper runs out. The surface of the paper is delicately marked with pen and ink or indented upon. The resulting drawings can be understood as experiments in challenging the definitions, and exploring the properties, of the drawn mark. In many of these experiments the line acts to record the minute cartography of the environment in which the drawings are made on a microscopic and relative scale.

However, despite the illusions created or resemblances found, in perceiving the work, the viewer is encouraged to look and then look again, and see that the surfaces or forms presented exist in reality as a collection of meticulously placed lines.