Panya Clark Espinal

Two Equal Volumes #1, 2016 (leads)

Two Equal Volumes #1, 2016 (leads)

Two Equal Volumes #3, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #3, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #4, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #4, 2016

A Failed Comparison of 7 Equal Volumes, 2016

A Failed Comparison of 7 Equal Volumes, 2016

A Failed Comparison of 7 Equal Volumes, 2016, detail

A Failed Comparison of 7 Equal Volumes, 2016, detail

A Series of Seven Equal Volumes, 2016

A Series of Seven Equal Volumes, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #8, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #8, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #8, 2016, detail

Two Equal Volumes #8, 2016, detail

Two Equal Volumes #11, 2016

Two Equal Volumes #11, 2016

Two Equal Volumes (Series 1), 2016

Sculpture/Drawing

graphite and polychrome pencil leads, paper

Two Equal Volumes explored the capacity of a drawing to be a sculpture. Two 0.5 mm leads of different types (be they different hardnesses of graphite leads or coloured leads that are made from wax, oil and pigment) were distributed over the substrate of the paper until they were entirely employed, allowing me to proclaim that there were two equal volumes of material in the sculpture/drawings. I think of these works as “sculptures pretending to be drawings”.