The Figuration of a Possible

Outskirts of Things

Thistles and Glyphs

Foreground Notes
Dragon Swallows Moon
Meditation Stone
Lobster Flats
Reed Field

Zazi

TIM TROMPETER

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Foreground Notes

Foreground Notes is a long-term research in the apprehension of nature through drawing, film and digital photography,
video and digital imaging.

Dans la Nature, l’Écriture

Each drawing sequence traces the linear contours and calligraphic markings of details routinely overlooked.
Consecutive drawings record a syntax in seeing and marking.

Linesets: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

The natural world is noisy and chaotic, systematic yet open-ended, patterned, complex and indifferent. There is an oscillation between structure and chaos, between ordering and disordering, between melody and static. The entire process plays out right in front of our noses

The Foreground Notes project includes more than 900 ink and wash drawings, scores of archival pigment prints of various dimensions, video/animation loops and an archive of thousands of film and digital photographs.

Culvert (Winter and Spring) 2008

Cascade 2014

pigment print 17 x 52 inches

Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

Not Your Mother’s Rococo

pigment prints, dimensions variable

Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

Drawingwall Splits 2007

pigment prints, dimensions variable

pigment printe, dimensions variable

Rockneedle 2003

Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper

Drawingwall scroll 03 2014

pigment print 15 x 48 inches

Scree Walk 2008

15 sumi pen drawings on paper + video loop

At Rest: Balbonne

sumi pen, brush and ink on paper 8 x 10 inches

The Endless Loop of Positive and Negative (2021)

Drawingwall scroll 01 - cut and stacked, horizontal to vertical

pigment print 15 x 60 inches

© 2024 Tim Trompeter