Can we perceive spaces made of charcoal, of texture, as tangible? If a space’s tangibility is defined by perception, cannot personal perception define a space? I perceive the floor under my feet to be wood, because I have just detailed the knots and beveled edges in my drawing, and that same drawing has taken over my imagination. Paper and charcoal is hardly real wood, but to me, it seems more real, more substantial than the floor on which I am standing. I watch the black dust smudge across smooth paper, an extension of my thoughts, each gesture making tangible the textural landscape of imagination. When I draw, I step into that landscape, I lose myself in shadows and highlights, let my intuition guide me, and experience matter, the physical, the architecture of my mind.
^ Virginia Ofer I Matter is Perception