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“Nowhere I actually want to be”: Drawings by Kat Masback

February 20, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Masback Dice City (city unplanned)

Dice City (city unplanned)
City map generated using “dice rolls” at random.org. Roll dice to select 1 of 6 road pieces | to select which branch to attach to.

Kat Masback is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her intricate drawings,  done with simple tools (pencil, marker, ball-point) deal with issues of language, memory, space and mapping and “any combination of these things“.

Explore her portfolio on her Flickr site.

Masback network v2

Network v2 – 28X18 cm (smaller objects, more lines, smoother, we’ll have to see)

 

 

Masback ls9

ls9 – 2 drawings overlaid and colored w/ photoshop

 

 

masback network sketch

Network sketch

 

 

masback - nowhere i actually want to be

Nowhere i actually want to be – “The men named this pass “the Devil’s turnpike,” and I see no reason to change it. The whole way was a succession of steep ascents and descents…The metallic clink of spurs, and the rattling of the mule shoes, the high black peaks, the deep dark ravines, and the unearthly looking cacti, which stuck out from the rocks like the ears of Mephistophiles, all favored the idea that we were now treading on the verge of the regions below. Occasionally a mule gave up the ghost, and was left as a propitiatory tribute to the place.” –Emory, William H. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. 34th Cong. 1st sess., 1854, S.Ex.Doc. 108.

 

 

masback nodes, nodes, nodes, nodes

nodes, nodes, nodes, nodes

 

 

masback - west3

west3

 

 

masback terraforming exoplanets

terraforming exoplanets – started one way, we set out

 

 

masback - the pleasure of walls

the pleasure of walls

 

 

Masback Shale

Shale – 8×10 inches, semi-generative… a geometric regional landscape

 

 

masback - spring variant

spring variant

 

 

masback - shale/canyon

Shale/canyon – slighty generative

 

 

masback - diagram structures + tracing paper= ?

Diagram structures + tracing paper= ?

 

All images © Kat Masback

Via:  Victoria L. Outerbridge

 

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    April 21, 2015 at 9:19 pm

    […] April 21, 2015 ~ jillianejenkins Dice City by Kat Masback. Part of a series of drawings called “Nowhere I actually want to be”. Image from http://socks-studio.com/2014/02/20/nowhere-i-actually-want-to-be-drawings-by-kat-masback/ […]

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