A Drawing Network of Caves

This project explores cave aesthetics through a Drawing Network approach. My method harnesses the freely iterative nature of digital drawing, allowing repeated depictions of a single theme. The images can be continuously modified, rearranged, interconnected, and it grows, enabling a multidimensional representation and long-term articulation of the subject. Inspired by the concept of the atlas, this approach represents a further development of drawing methodology.

 

​Focusing on cave aesthetics, I selected and reworked numerous pieces created over the past three years. These were digitally printed on recycled paper and arranged on the wall in the manner of a cross-sectional cave structure. All drawings are interconnected, forming relationships with one another, while collectively composing a larger cave drawing.​

 

From natural grottoes and prehistoric murals to basements, corridors, modern bunkers, and data centers, the cave represents a vital negative space. In a broader sense, cave aesthetics may also encompass any secluded space or isolated psychological condition—a confined space surrounded by darkness and the blankness of uncertainty. A cave may serve as a shelter for survival or as a prison, a cozy comfort zone or an information cocoon. Subthemes include: contextual displacement across time, cave psychology, interfaces, and formal studies.