KM7.

 

Linear strokes are more than just an artistic aesthetic, these marks are that of significance, for they come to represent boundaries, edges, and frontiers. Lines can act as visual or physical limitations. They form fences, crosswalks, emotional barriers. We cross them and we build them. In his outdoor installation work, KM7, artist Ivan Puig tackled the subject of line. He sought to build a literal representation of a line's figural conception. According to his artist statement (loosely translated by Google), Puig sees the linear mark as an imaginary event. He believes the line acts as "an element that contains and protects the difference between two states, material or ethereal, physical or conceptual, and that allows it to be transferred under certain conditions." Puig goes on to explain that when one crosses these boundaries, consequences ensue. Therefor, to give visual light to his conceptual thought processes, Puig manifested a boundary of a blue paint on a country road. Passing cars dragged the paint across the black tar, forming ocular representations of "consequence."