Katherine Keltner

All of my works are connected by an impulse to interpret and impose a structure on the ephemeral. At the root of this is a desire to understand my space amidst so many uncontrollable factors. If I can freeze something that doesn’t really stop and make tangible what isn’t (ultimately time), then I can examine the composite pieces and begin to place myself within it.

Visually, this translates into mapping or diagramming something that was: a portrait of a moment. The works are the result of patient observation, whether of acorns falling on a canvas, ink dropping on paper, shadows resting on the ground, or light radiating on water, as a means of documenting a passage of time. Line is prominent in all of my work, whether as a graphite, hand-drawn line, a line of light, a line of circles, or a line of thread. My lines provide a simple way to find linkages among the disorder and a way to create my own ordered space.