Dan Gilsdorf

2010

Black Mass is a drawing project that uses the gallery walls and floor as sectional planes to delineate and map the reach of the artist. Each drawing is achieved by standing in a fixed position and filling in everything that is within arm's length. This results in a sequence of planar shapes that suggests a three-dimensional form defined by the limits of the artist's grasp; it is an event horizon, a sphere of influence. Black Mass refers not to the physical mass of an actual static body, but to a theoretical mass defined by the possibility of bodily presence.