These works showcase my muse - my daughter Claire - and my relationship with the force we call nature. There are many applications associated with both the figurative and abstracted works. The figurative drawings are stories that we actually experienced as well as imaginative tales. In the abstract work, the white line represents ideas about interconnectivity infused with a deep concern for disappearing species, depleting natural resources, and all the environmental imbalances happening now on our planet. They embody qualities of gravity, growth, sound, and subtle reciprocity and accumulation. These large-scale drawings consider the influence of solastalgia to our perceptions of the natural environment. Our eco-biographies are changing at a pace that is difficult to navigate due to climate change. An encapsulation of images furrow the surface of the paper. Associations may appear for the viewer such as a fingerprint, clouds, terraced paddy fields, grooves on a whale’s belly, erosion on rock, or a descending glacier. This line-work, therefore, can vacillate with macro and micro visions of our earth and ourselves. They emerge as a condensation of complex interdependent ecological systems that bow like strings agitated by my fingertips.


                                                                                                                                        Rachael Lynn Davis, January2014