Scott Carruthers
aswemaythink
June 6–August 2, 2014

An immersive drawing installation on five foot wide mylar sheets that wrap around the wall of the gallery. Although alluding to different forms of storytelling (manuscripts, codex, comics), the work itself is devoid of traditional narrative structure; no beginning, ending or casual connection between images.

“Using a process based on writing techniques of the Surrealists, I draw automatically and continuously, using chance and free association to suggest the next image. When I am drawing, there is no conscious theme to my work; my goal is simply to make a new image each time.

For the past twelve years I have been exploring the notion of information as environment. In an attempt to create an immersive “world” that can be experienced both cognitively and physically, I fill a site with thousands of drawings. Although alluding to different forms of storytelling (manuscripts, codex and comics), the work itself is devoid of traditional narrative structure. There is no beginning, ending or causal connection between images.

“In aswemaythink, the goal was to create a work that exists somewhere between narrative and landscape. It is also meant to evoke a tension between sequential narrative and a kind of “all-at-once-ness”, a term that Marshall McLuhan used to describe the experience of living in a media-saturated, digital environment. This work invites a new kind of reading from the viewer, with pattern recognition playing as big a role as traditional narrative interpretation.”

The artist wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.