The Geometry of Hope series pays tribute to the group of postwar Latin-American artists whose work was shown together under that title, and in particular to the interplay of object and shadow in Gego’s “Drawings without Paper.” Where Gego used elaborate wire constructions to “draw” on the wall, here delicate strands of glass cast the shadows that reduce the work’s surface image to pure line.  Multiple sources of light produce an intricate doubling or tripling of the image in black-and-white form.

My process in this series derives from traditional textile practice, reinterpreted in non-traditional industrial materials: stainless steel, glass, and wire. Although I establish geometric rules for each piece, within those rules each piece is an improvisation, starting with a single line of glass and building outward, never sketched in advance. The process of constructing the work, line by line, stands in for the perennial human search – whether a child’s inquiry or formal scientific investigation — for comprehensible pattern in the natural world.