Persistence 1 Charcoal on Paper 42" x 180"

This past week after working through many ideas and understanding certain mappings, I have been connecting my past work to this new project. These drawings of a root structure are very closely related to mapping. My initial idea was to create architectural spaces that related to the path or direction that a person takes through life. This can also be seen in the same relationship to a map. Although it is not a map of following but a map of creating. I find that a person always creates their own map, not following a map. This is why I find so many maps to be minuscule in importance. I find that maps are only relative to certain places that a person has been, therefore I want to discredit the idea of a map taking a person somewhere, but rather a person documenting their journey creating a so called map. This is the idea that I went through while creating these drawings. I find that roots are a structure that constantly persist and are a great metaphor for a life path or map creation. So for the next project I would like to incorporate some of the same elements from my drawings bringing the root structure into a more specific context. Each drawing that was created had a beginning or birth, a development of life, a regression, a misdirection, and a death or unending. The structures created are contained by certain boundaries, but never touch the end. This being purposeful that a person never reaches a true end. I want that same idea to be presented in my current project and for my map to never have a true ending point. There are so many areas of the world and life to be discovered that if a person were to create an ending it would be untrue, due to the nature of life and the idea of an ending being undefinable. Death can be considered a definite end depending on what a person believes. I find that there is no true end to life that a person is constantly reaching for more, just how a root always reaches and persist.