Burrow
Elizabeth Simonson
American, born 1964
2001
A drawing in ink, colored ink, and pencil on graph paper in which Simonson maps a narrow, burrow‑like passage down the center of the sheet, translating motion and accumulation into a precise linear record.
You first notice the vast pale grid and surrounding emptiness, then a single vertical column of tiny red, pixel‑like marks and faint pencil Xs that cluster, scatter, and thicken like an archaeological cross‑section or a stitched seam.
It sits at the intersection of mapping, minimalism, and process art—showing how the grid and repetitive mark‑making can turn drawing into a measured record of time, movement, and hidden structures.
Medium
Ink, colored ink, and pencil on graph paper
Dimensions
16 x 11" (40.6 x 27.9 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3109.2005
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