DRAWING – christopher squier

Interference patterns

January 20, 2020August 5, 2020

STRANGE AND UNADORNED : WAVE INTERFERENCE STUDIES (NO. 1 – 19) GRAPHITE ON CANSON BARBIZON PAPER 15.3 X 10.6 INCHES / 39 x 27 CENTIMETERS 2019 – 2020 These drawings source imagery from American photographer Berenice Abbott’s series Documenting Science, created during the 1940s and 50s, in which photographic exposures of light waves captured with […]

Origin of the world

December 2, 2014August 9, 2020

ORIGIN OF THE WORLD GRAPHITE AND PEN ON PAPER 2014 Beginning with the phrase “origin of the world,” I trace the etymologies of each of these words through their histories. In a variety of early languages including Avestan, Proto-Germanic, Old Frisian, Old High German, Old Norse, and Proto-Indo-European, I investigate how far back these etymologies […]