Line, dot, cartography, trajectory, plan, programme, system: these are some of the elements used to articulate the drawings that make up the 5th issue of HB magazine.
Drawing is a construction in which flat plane is used to delve deeper into another space. It is a blueprint with its own objective: to exist outside of its image, whether real, invented or fantasy. Within certain perimeters, it becomes a project, a machine deployed through depiction.
It is a plan, it maps out a territory, yet its reality is greater than that which it depicts; its inner lining, that which can’t be seen, illustrates well beyond the territory depicted.
It is a programme, a foreseen or anticipated process unfolding as a series of actions with origins, causes, repercussions and resonances that create a mental, man-made, political or dramatic landscape.
It conjures a community of the North, the remains of war or of bungalows, gentrified zombies, machines for everything and nothing, a factory of mercantile intentions, or the fragility of the line between construction and collapse.
In each case, the drawing creates a reality enclosed within a margin, whether layered or on the surface. It attempts to capture the lateral dimension of the objects, structures, events or illusions that exist within the systems of our interior and collective governing.