ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty:
2006-2007 Exhibition

April 14 through September 9, 2007

JULIE ANAND

Julie Anand
River Map, 2005
Cyanotype prints with dirt and guache, fiberboard, plywood, salvaged aluminum
70 x 44 x 40"
Courtesy of the artist

River Map translates the leaf-vein pattern of a water-loving plant into the blues of an imaginary river system. The cyanotype prints made from enlarged photograms of the leaf veins are painted with dirt from the site where the leaf was collected.

A horizontal table orientation results in a kind of walking perspective, much like the way land unfolds to a viewer. Pieces are movable and rise up and fall down differently for each exhibition. This malleability of form and dissolution into parts refers to the way that matter breaks down. The plant that grew by taking in water will become soil upon death and be carried downstream to feed another. This history of material cycles is embodied in the dirt used here as paint.

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