UNDEFINED: drawings of Gerda Kruimer based on an identical grid

Artist Statement

I make drawings as autonomous artworks. Drawing to me is a form of visual thinking in which the intrinsic value is the endpoint of each work. My fascination lies in the countless lines that make unspoken unseen connections in the spatial whole. In response to the created world around me, I determine my place again and again in my works, so that I exist!

During my study I was taught blackboard sketching. As a final test, we had to pick an object and draw it into perspective with white chalk. From a limited number of articles, I chose a small object, not knowing what it represented; I could not determine the front or backside. The thin lines I made were partly erased because of the scraping of my nails on the blackboard. I created a large transparent drawing of this small object. Due to lack of time I could not finish it and it had to be obliterated.

Several years later, I participated in a competition for an assignment. The location was a water-filled ditch of 9 by 90 meters. On the photographs I had made of the location, I drew lines on the water between the elements surrounding the ditch. It generated a play of lines on the photos that was broken by the reflection depicted on the water. It resulted in a design for a sculpture of 7 by 70 meters.

Since then, I have been making works that are composed of lines, both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional.