Between the Lines
Between the Lines
Plaster Wrap, Molding Paste, Acrylic, Varnish, Arches Watercolor Paper, sewn to 1-3/8” Profile Canvas
24” x 24”
“Between the Lines” shows punctuation marks as symbols for how tone of voice, intonation, and feeling
can sometimes convey meaning more than words can. Emotion can transcend vocabulary. We can read
familiar experiences and patterns “between the lines” to translate meaning.
Here, punctuation marks are paralleled with landscapes as similes, to imply a progression similar to the
plot of a story, without words. Beginnings: quotation marks and fertile soil. Anticipation: question mark
and climbing a mountain. More information to come: semicolon and a river. Settling into a lull: comma and
period, and a valley. Climax: exclamation mark and a volcano. Denouement: ellipsis followed by period
and closing quotation marks, and a landscape seen in its entirety.