Dust Cover is an ongoing migratory series of projects. The projects are developed in different locations, in site-specific and time-specific situations.

Some people, when they go away for a long period, cover their furniture and objects with large pieces of fabric called dust covers. During time dust gathers on the fabric surface giving shape to what is hidden under. The dust particles contain moments of time that become materialised in shapes on fabric.

I adopted this idea by creating the Dust Cover series. Each Dust Cover is a piece of primed canvas, or polyester fabric, which I use to wrap over objects and furniture in a space (interior or exterior) I currently occupy. During the drawing process the fabric is covered in the line structure representing dust. I call this method drawing frottage.

The Dust Cover project talks about people and their travels/movements. About meeting people in places one visits, or temporarily or sub-permanently occupies, and about time one spends with others, often strangers. Through my drawing process, I document these constantly reshaping time/space situations: little chats, “cups of coffees and teas”, meals… in which visitors-participants partake in.

The process I employ is drawing with the intention to record the present time continuous moment. This is the way in which I try to translate living energy into the line. The line is processed via the biological phenomenon of being as detected by my sense of sight and communicated through my body. I draw my environment as I see it in real time – tracing and re-tracing the visible. The line absorbs heightened awareness of dwelling in the everyday areas of human thought, behaviour and experience.

Artist’s Statement