Rootlines — Mini Mixed Media Works
This series of small-scale mixed media works forms an integral part of the ongoing Rootlines project. Created as intimate, self-contained pieces, they operate at the intersection of drawing, printmaking, and material experimentation, allowing ideas to surface in a more immediate and exploratory way.
Each work combines multiple techniques — including drawing, mark-making, layered ink, and print-based processes — applied intuitively rather than according to a fixed sequence. The imagery evolves through accumulation and response: lines are added, interrupted, partially erased, or absorbed by the surface. Forms emerge slowly, shifting between root systems, internal anatomies, fragmented landscapes, and abstract structures.
Working at a reduced scale encourages closeness and concentration. The viewer is invited to approach the works as one might approach a specimen, a fragment, or a found object — something held rather than surveyed. Despite their size, these pieces carry a sense of depth and density, built through repetition, pressure, and time.
Within Rootlines, the mini mixed media works function as a visual laboratory. They allow for risk, uncertainty, and deviation from resolved compositions, preserving moments where the image remains open and unresolved. Rather than illustrating ideas, they record processes of looking, sensing, and negotiating form.
Material irregularities — stains, tonal shifts, visible layers, and subtle imperfections — are not corrected but retained as part of the work. These traces echo the project’s broader interest in underground networks, hidden connections, and the quiet persistence of natural systems that grow without spectacle or symmetry.
Together, the series forms a constellation of small but potent works — fragments of a larger visual language, each carrying its own internal rhythm while remaining connected to the wider terrain of Rootlines.
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