Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else
Matthew Ritchie
British, born 1964
(2000-01)
A panoramic drawing in ink and graphite on mylar in which Matthew Ritchie diagrams human, natural, and conceptual relations as a single looping system to suggest how “everyone belongs to everyone else.”
Across a wide, luminous surface hurricane‑like swirls of yellow‑green read as trees or vortices linked by fine technical lines, tiny figures, arrows and numeric annotations so the image feels equal parts map, machine schematic and fable.
By fusing scientific notation, mythic imagery and hand‑drawn gesture, the work joins a late‑20th/early‑21st‑century interest in diagrammatic art that makes networks and interdependence visible, bridging data, narrative and ritual in contemporary practice.
Medium
Ink and graphite on mylar
Dimensions
22 x 65" (55.9 x 165.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
2592.2001.4
Palette
Exhibitions
