While some of her drawings involve pencil and paper, many of them are unbound from the confines of the page and exist as embroideries, sewn leather, bleached fabric, and even objects. For Jotta, to draw is to draw out—in the sense of demonstrating, discovering, or fleshing out the potential connections that lie dormant between disparate images and references. In her hands, to draw is also to draw from—to take, to appropriate, and to extract from the world. And yet even the simple act of drawing a line, in its most basic sense, is about creating links and forging associations and serves as an apt metaphor for her process more generally. The artist expands the language of drawing by inventing a field where sketches, stitches, scribbles, silhouettes, scratches, and scissors contribute to an ecosystem... Read more