DRAWING

Eve’s drawings investigate the tools and mechanisms that humans use to understand the physical world. She likens a canvas to the surface of an archaeological dig, and drawing marks – ink and graphite – to archaeological tools. The grid of the canvas’s weave become the basis for locating and measuring, as marks burrow into the canvas and pull forth the action of physical geological forces. Her drawings beg the questions of how ancient environment forces relate to us now, how we can understand them, and how an understanding of such forces would transform our lives. The first iteration of the series featured above, Riding the Tectonic Plates: Drawing Acts, was created in 1980, and was revisited in 2008.