Finding Resolutions in Black, White + Grey.
“Trace Echo”
This series of drawings invite viewers into a spatial meditation on repetition, presence, and the layered architecture of the self. Inspired by the visual language of Terry Winters—whose work explores systems, organic patterning, and the boundaries between abstraction and information—the drawings employ concentric linework and shifting transparencies to evoke both fingerprint and vortex, the act of recording and the act of unraveling.
The spiral motif, rendered through interwoven black and white marks, suggests motion and memory. It conjures a topographical map of the inner world—a terrain shaped by psychological tension, circular thought, and the quiet persistence of identity over time. Like Winters, I draw from the visual structures of biology and data, grounding abstraction in a corporeal reference: the fingerprint as personal code, endlessly repeatable, yet always unique.
The body of work, “Trace Echo” becomes an active field of perception, where lines vibrate between gesture and system. The drawn marks alternate between control and release, revealing the push and pull of order and chaos. As in Winters’ paintings, the work embraces ambiguity and multiplicity, suggesting both the digital and the intimate, the micro and the cosmic.
In these works drawing is both a meditative act and a record of presence—where drawing is used not to depict, but to embody. It offers a visual language for anxiety that spirals without resolution, and in doing so, it becomes a quiet resistance to linear narrative. Instead, it celebrates the circular, the recursive, the unresolved.
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