Jeanne Hoffman

For me there is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark which transforms a blank page into an imaginary space: The path of a gesture of one's hand across a page can be traced in the same way we can map our journeys across the landscape of a place.  

I am interested in the sensual-emotional and socio-cultural dimensions of places. From this perspective place can be understood as a framework of life branded with personal memories. This play between personal and social, private and public reinforces my interest in collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.

Travelling and working in different locations, my approach and process alternate between two poles: nest-builder and nomad. In my work I build temporary shelters for thoughts - wandering from one place to another, collecting observations, experiences and meaning. I tend to understand this notion of travel as a gesture that enables one to re-view one's position emotionally, socially and politically within a particular geographical locality. In this sense drawing can be used as a tool which allows the mind to wander along the more distant paths of memory and imagination to return with a more acute awareness of the present.

 

Jeanne Hoffman