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Updated: 8.7.2007

MOLLY BARKER

The Memory of Space

The first pull of the jungle gym was the pull of space, of lines in space. The jungle gym was a three-dimensional drawing. It was like coming upon an actual drawing, in its natural habitat. It had that kind of independent existence. I spent half a year drawing it- in the park every day, and in the studio at night. It occupied my mind. Thoughts and feelings would take the shape of its structure. I was drawing the space in all the ways that I felt it while I was there with the jungle gym, connected to the world, and all the ways that it later lived in my mind. I was exploring and building a language from the layers of doing and remembering and seeing. Drawing changes remembering, which changes seeing, which changes drawing. Being there with the jungle gym, the feeling of that space, included having been there before and what I made of it. It's fun to watch the mind and memory play, and to watch something grow. But the daily encounter with the actual jungle gym was what made everything important. It was bigger than me.