Dashed Line Project
Dashed lines are not often used as an expressive tool. They usually act as visual shorthand in things like instruction manuals, maps, and architectural drawings. Being associated with characteristics of objectivity and purpose can allow for these particular lines to be used in many different ways with various implications.
While an MFA candidate at Ohio State, I proposed the Dashed Line Project. Participants made their own dashed line tools, and then used these tools to relate to the environment around them. Participants’ explorations were documented; their ephemeral interactions marked, traced, and mapped by the dashed line tools.
As with the manuals and maps, these dashed lines exist in the present but communicate an event or thing that may have existed in the past, or could exist in the future. In this project, this suggestive quality is highlighted and played with; these dashed lines become more poetic than practical.
Some images and clips are from experiments preceding the MFA installation. Prior to the exhibition, I documented friends and family using dashed line tools in spaces of their choosing.
