The Ethnocentric Nature of Line
Solo Exhibition, 2009
Irvine Valley College Art Gallery
Irvine, CA
The Ethnocentric Nature of Line questions our cultural insistence over nature. By simulating natural forms with line through a repetitive method of production, I focus my contemplation, in an attempt to discern the imbalance within ourselves and with nature.
works on display »
![Knot This Way, the Other [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Knot-This-Way-the-Other_detail.jpg "Knot This Way, the Other [detail] / 2009")
![A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/A-Basket-Too-Complect-to-Tail_detail.jpg "A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. [detail] / 2009")
![The Foot Between Us [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/The-Foot-Between-Us_detail.jpg "The Foot Between Us [detail] / 2009")
![Future Expansion has a Blue End [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Future-Expansion-has-a-Blue-End_detail.jpg "Future Expansion has a Blue End [detail] / 2009")
![Stranded [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Stranded_detail.jpg "Stranded [detail] / 2009")
![Skirting the Issue [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Skirting-the-Issue-detail.jpg "Skirting the Issue [detail] / 2009")
![Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Somewhere-Elsewhere-A-Truculent-Story_detail.jpg "Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) [detail] / 2009")
![My Beginning is an End [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/My-Beginning-is-an-End_detail1.jpg "My Beginning is an End [detail] / 2009")
![Recoil [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Recoil_detail.jpg "Recoil [detail] / 2009")
![Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Scale-Is-a-Mindset-with-Blue-Sticks-and-Wire_detail.jpg "Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007")
![Kinks in Chaos [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Kinks-in-Chaos_detail.jpg "Kinks in Chaos [detail] / 2009")
![Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Scale-Is-a-Mindset-with-Red-Sticks-and-Wire_detail.jpg "Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007")
![Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Contortions-of-a-Purple-Yellow-Haze_detail.jpg "Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze [detail] / 2009")
![Rigid in Red (petite) [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Rigid-in-Red-Petite_detail.jpg "Rigid in Red (petite) [detail] / 2009")
![Rigid in Red/Yellow [detail] / 2009](http://www.dameonlester.com/dameonlester/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Rigid-in-Red-Yellow_detail.jpg "Rigid in Red/Yellow [detail] / 2009")
01 Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) /// 2007 /// 12.5″ x 11″ x 13″ (variable) /// bamboo skewers, wire, paint
02 Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) /// 2007 /// 11.5″ x 12″ x 9″ (variable) /// bamboo skewers, wire, paint
03 Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze /// 2008 /// 7″ x 9″ x 6″ (variable) /// paper, felt
04 Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2008 /// 9″ x 9″ x 10.5″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
05 Rigid in Red/Yellow /// 2009 /// 27″ x 28″ x 24″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
06 Silhouette Series: Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
07 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red Examined /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
08 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
09 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Inner Stellar /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
10 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Close /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
11 Silhouette Series: A Softer Future After Dusk Looms Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
12 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
13 Silhouette Series: Scale is a Mindset /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
14 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Line /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
15 Berry Blue /// 2009 /// 3″ x 4″ x 3″ /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
16 Bulbous Protuberant Stemmed /// 2009 /// 5.5″ x 8″ x 4″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
17 Infinity Blackened /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 3″/// enameled copper wire/// hand-woven
18 Infinity of a Different Stripe, a Twisted Fate /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 6″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
19 Kinks in Chaos /// 2009 /// 6.5″ x 6″ x 4″ (variable) /// aluminum wire/// hand-woven
20 Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 98″ x 9″ x 9″ (variable) /// aluminum wire /// hand-woven
21 Suspended /// 2009 /// 50″ x 13″ x 13″ /// aluminum welding wire /// hand-woven
22 Future Expansion has a Blue End /// 2009 /// 60″ x 30″ x 11″ (variable) /// aluminum wire, enameled copper wire/// hand-woven
23 The Foot Between Us /// 2009 /// 84″ x 7.5″ x 65″ /// aluminum wire, copper wire, steel /// hand-woven
24 A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. /// 2009 /// 10″ x 21″ x 20″ /// aluminum wire, copper magnet wire /// hand-woven
25 Skirting the Issue /// 2009 /// 99″ x 30″ x 30″ /// tie wire /// hand-woven
26 Stranded /// 2009 /// 24″ x 30″ x 10″ (variable) /// tie wire/// hand-woven
27 Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) /// 2009 /// 32″ x 78″ x 70″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
28 My Beginning is an End /// 2009 /// 27″ x 92″ x 44″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
29 Recoil /// 2009 /// 48″ x 57″ x 24″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
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02 Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) /// 2007 /// 11.5″ x 12″ x 9″ (variable) /// bamboo skewers, wire, paint
03 Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze /// 2008 /// 7″ x 9″ x 6″ (variable) /// paper, felt
04 Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2008 /// 9″ x 9″ x 10.5″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
05 Rigid in Red/Yellow /// 2009 /// 27″ x 28″ x 24″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
06 Silhouette Series: Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
07 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red Examined /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
08 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
09 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Inner Stellar /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
10 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Close /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
11 Silhouette Series: A Softer Future After Dusk Looms Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
12 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
13 Silhouette Series: Scale is a Mindset /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
14 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Line /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
15 Berry Blue /// 2009 /// 3″ x 4″ x 3″ /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
16 Bulbous Protuberant Stemmed /// 2009 /// 5.5″ x 8″ x 4″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
17 Infinity Blackened /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 3″/// enameled copper wire/// hand-woven
18 Infinity of a Different Stripe, a Twisted Fate /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 6″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
19 Kinks in Chaos /// 2009 /// 6.5″ x 6″ x 4″ (variable) /// aluminum wire/// hand-woven
20 Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 98″ x 9″ x 9″ (variable) /// aluminum wire /// hand-woven
21 Suspended /// 2009 /// 50″ x 13″ x 13″ /// aluminum welding wire /// hand-woven
22 Future Expansion has a Blue End /// 2009 /// 60″ x 30″ x 11″ (variable) /// aluminum wire, enameled copper wire/// hand-woven
23 The Foot Between Us /// 2009 /// 84″ x 7.5″ x 65″ /// aluminum wire, copper wire, steel /// hand-woven
24 A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. /// 2009 /// 10″ x 21″ x 20″ /// aluminum wire, copper magnet wire /// hand-woven
25 Skirting the Issue /// 2009 /// 99″ x 30″ x 30″ /// tie wire /// hand-woven
26 Stranded /// 2009 /// 24″ x 30″ x 10″ (variable) /// tie wire/// hand-woven
27 Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) /// 2009 /// 32″ x 78″ x 70″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
28 My Beginning is an End /// 2009 /// 27″ x 92″ x 44″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
29 Recoil /// 2009 /// 48″ x 57″ x 24″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
List does not reflect order of images below.