Stephanie Molstre-Kotz

Settling my mind has always been resolved with a pencil and paper. Line exposes an immediate sense of purpose and belief in organized thought. This is the basis of my work. By focusing on line, I am able to instigate energy from within. I believe in the Renaissance notion of drawing; disegno externo, disegno interno - line names the internal and becomes the external. It is the messy act of weaving lines like string, erasing and allowing my decisions to become palimpsest. Paper, the surface I lean to, the clean open space that offers the pull of depth, refuge, relief, release, is not a simple medium or muse – it is atmosphere. The process of resolving ideas through marks on paper or cloth is where I find true engagement. Material and intuition guide me toward a purpose, and organization. Line sets a temporal devise within those materials. The result is an opening to real and imagined space.