calm chaos and paper beauty:
robert walden in conversation with lara kristin lentini

art papers, march 2008 issue

for just over ten years, robert walden has been creating intricate, detailed line drawings, eerily reminiscent of the topography of the world's great, familiar cities. graceful, spacious, elegant, the drawings capture the eye as maps, but when the viewer draws closer—thinking, perhaps, that this is amsterdam, paris, or london—she finds not a legible map, but a sort of ghostly vapor trail—an afterimage, mysteriously stripped of all identifying features.

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