Krista Dragomer

This body of work began as I was staring out at a frozen Lake Erie from the meditation room at Hospice of the Western Reserve, in Cleveland Ohio. The vision of an unmoving lake called up a tension between stasis and change, between surface and what lives below. Imagery started to emerge. A few weeks after my father passed, I fell in love with a woman and my life changed. And so I began to create work by making rubber molds from our bodies, hers and mine, and arranging them into topographies inspired by the work of Marie Tharp, the geologist and oceanographer to first map the ocean floor.  These works chart the uncalculable spaces between three points: the bodies of two women in midlife traversing loss and change and continents to meet, and a woman in the 1950’s drawing maps of the deepest places she could imagine. These dimensional works are made with the materials of drawing—paper, graphite, charcoal, ink, wax—activating sculptural space while remaining in conversation with the wall, the rectangle, the propositional gesture of drawing. Like drawing, these paper works hold a line lightly, suggesting a shape or place for the lines to travel to without delimiting their possibilities.

pigmented cast cotton and linen paper sculpture

inquiries: studio.kristadragomer@gmail.com