Mapping Lineage
3 Scrolls (Ink, Acrylic, and Color Pencil on Paper),
Duct Work, 4 Speakers, and Sound
About 4’ x 30’ Each Scroll

Exhibited @ The Aidekman Art Gallery, Tufts University
April 2005

The narratives embedded in my layered lines are descriptions of change, movement, transformation, and adaptation. They are accounts of lineage between one location and another, between natural phenomena and cultural creations, between one generation and the next, between seemingly unrelated yet interconnected forces, and the relationships that exist within the undefined spaces of the in-betweens.

Accumulations of experiences of landscapes record and impress their mark on my memory, leaving the residue and traces of fragments to fuse into fresh conglomerations. These conglomerations develop to embody the matter of hybridity as an inevitable mechanism that continuously affects the intertwining relationships of environment, body, and memory.

What is a land’s physical capacity for adaptation to alterations made onto it? What is our own psychological tolerance for change? What seems fragile and impermanent in one instance reveals its dynamic strength in another, still what appears permanent and static at other times is easily humbled in the endless cycles of decay and renewal.

- Evelyn Rydz, 2005