The Space to Grow

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The Space to Grow depicts a dense, swirling entanglement of body parts in two sharply distinct styles. There are bright hands, feet, arms, and legs, rendered in gently toned conté crayon on the soft white of the prepared Claybord surface. A hand grasps a thigh, pressing into skin to create shadows that define substance in an otherwise blank white expanse. There are also dark masses created in densely solid black ink, emerging as the hair of a central face but then extending and turning into something more. Through contrasts of brightness and material, one could quite easily think of these two elements as separate, but Samantha Yun Wall explains otherwise.