Boa
Elizabeth Simonson
American, born 1964
1999
A vertical, roll-mounted drawing in felt‑tip pen, colored ink, and pencil on graph paper in which Simonson translates repeated marks into a sinuous, boa‑like column that threads the wall and floor.
You first notice a delicate spine of radiating pencil lines and a clustered, almost pixelated pink mass that coils like a living organism while casting precise, fanlike echoes across the paper.
By letting repetitive, hand-drawn gestures accumulate on measured graph paper, the piece collapses the divide between controlled systems and organic growth, pointing toward later work that blends drawing, installation, and computational aesthetics.
Medium
Felt-tip pen, colored ink, and pencil on graph paper
Dimensions
166 x 36" (421.6 x 91.4 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3108.2005
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