Borderlands

In Borderlands, Rosalyn Richards created conceptual representations of space. Geometric forms of various shapes, colors, and textures abut and overlap each other, and a graphite grid provides a maplike structure. The central division in the composition alludes to the tensions and cohesions that can occur at political, geographical, ideological, and other borders. Working in water-soluble gouache on top of gesso and acrylic grounds, Richards was able to work, erase, and rework the composition in a complex layering of gouache and graphite. For her, this process and the traces it left behind symbolize the role of memory and the imagination in reconstructing that which is not (or that which is no longer) visible.