Carolie Parker
Aerial Sweep #2
2019
Acrylic, wax and chalk on discarded maps/geological surveys
4 1/2 x 6 feet variable
Seen from the air, things familiar on earth’s surface become puzzling glyphs that convey unremitting, if not always legible, human design on the landscape. These multipart paintings zoom out from geological survey maps to blunt grid-like patterns suggested by urban and industrial configurations. Disassembled and reassembled all wrong, the black grids are a shaky attempt to bind the whole together—ground, formal composition and the world in general.