Tradewinds

World maps are inherently familiar, but their transformation reveals a multiplicity of points of view, and suggests ongoing, changeable and indefinable experiences of space. In Trade Winds, I am transforming a spinning globe with animated drawing and painting a play on data visualization commonly used to comprehend global flows of information. I am treating the idea of this technological aesthetic with hand-drawn personal expression. As the world spins, the animation is constantly re-visiting previous imagery that has been left behind ¬ I am constantly re¬ animating traces of past ideas. I draw together global systems that interconnect with actions relating to a single person. These include, for example, weather patterns, cogs turning, an individuals hands catching rain, and a single figure swimming. Trade winds speaks of individual experience in an ever-changing landscape of shifting temporalities.