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This drawing series has evolved within the last decade from rather small drawings depicting single shapes, to wall-size drawings with accumulations of shapes that become a whole through a play of density and looseness.
Ett mikro-/makrouniversum – vad är detta egentligen
13.11.-24.11.2012
The series was initially inspired by a real object – an Osage orange – a round fruit the size of a grapefruit, but with gnarly green skin. It belongs to the citrus family, but is not edible.
While the early drawings brought to mind seedpods found in plants, the drawings – as they grew in size – increasingly detached themselves from the depiction of objects to become porous amoeba-like shapes.
Some of them remind viewers of microorganisms, deep-sea creatures, microscopic imagery of cells and membranes, or celestial constellations. These resemblances are not intentional, and as an artist I want to leave it up to my audience to let their fantasy roam. My drawing process is generally meditative and I cannot clearly picture the outcome of a drawing when I start it. It rather evolves slowly during the days I work on it, often many hours at a time.
The drawings are created on paper with pens filled with permanent Indian ink.
Sonja Hinrichsen
