Rootlines – Mixed Media Miniatures
This series of small-scale mixed media works forms an intimate extension of the Rootlines project. While the larger linocut prints explore expansive, landscape-like networks, these drawings operate on a more personal, immediate level — as fragments, studies, and internal maps.
Each work measures 20 × 20 cm, mounted on Somerset paper, 30 × 30 cm, creating a deliberate margin of breathing space around the image. The surrounding paper is not a neutral background, but an integral part of the composition — a quiet field against which the marks, stains, and lines can resonate.
Process and Materials
The works combine drawing, printmaking, and painterly gestures. Linear structures — reminiscent of roots, neural pathways, or topographic lines — are layered with washes, stains, and textured surfaces. Some pieces retain the memory of printmaking processes, others move closer to free drawing and abstraction.
Rather than illustrating a fixed landscape, these works trace processes of emergence, erosion, and accumulation. Lines appear to grow, tangle, dissolve, or break apart, suggesting systems that are unstable, organic, and constantly shifting.
Concept
Within the context of Rootlines, these miniatures can be read as inner landscapes — moments where the scale contracts and the focus shifts from territory to sensation, memory, and bodily experience. They function as visual notes: pauses between larger works, testing grounds for gesture, rhythm, and material response.
Together, the series reflects an ongoing investigation into connection and continuity — between body and environment, conscious mark and instinctive gesture, structure and vulnerability. The works resist a single narrative, instead offering multiple entry points into the wider language of Rootlines.
Quiet, fragmentary, and tactile, these drawings invite close looking — asking the viewer to slow down and follow the lines where they lead.
