A Series of False Summits

REBECCA DIELE

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A Series of False Summits

Like a landscape that folds in on itself, A Series of False Summits charts the uncertainty of arrival. Each work maps an imagined topography, a field of intersections and interruptions drawn from geographic coordinates, contour lines, and sequences that never quite resolve. The patterns emerge through the act of mapping itself, tracing distance and return. The surfaces are drawn from real locations, yet they drift beyond the factual, becoming meditations on movement, uncertainty, and time.

The gold work threads chain into paper, creating a terrain that shimmers between structure and collapse. Its surface catches light like a shifting altitude map, lines of ascent that appear to lead somewhere but dissolve into folds and shadows. The other, rendered in soft interplays of orange, pink, brown, blue, and green, drifts between cartography and textile, its warped grid recalling geological strata or fragments of eroded maps.

Together, they speak to the moment before completion, when progress feels both near and unreachable. The idea of a false summit lingers as both promise and reminder that every arrival contains another horizon. Within these folded maps, the act of mapping itself becomes an inquiry into relation and perception, a way of finding form in the intervals between what is seen and what is felt.

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