ADELA MUNTEAN

L I N E S & D O T S

"A line is a dot that went for a walk"

A line is a dot that went for a walk said Paul Klee.


First time I encountered Paul Klee's saying was in my childhood when my mother used to say about my father:"he has only lines and dots in his head."

This was the very first time I realized that lines and dots have something to do with the fact that my father is an engineer.

My brother was lucky to inherit his talent of having lines and dots in the head, so they set up their own business in this field: they make designs of pipelines and ducts which supply water for cities and villages, heat people’s houses and provide electricity in every room.

They know a lot about the mathematics, the proportion, the structuring and the scaling of lines and dots; they are masters in calculating the meandering (pipe) lines in 2D (paper) and 3D (software).

My father's and my brother's lines and dots are found everywhere: we can see them meandering above the ground but we also know they continue zigzagging underneath, hidden from our eyes: running underground and within the walls the pipes rule our world; they bring us water, air, heat and electricity, the essential elements of life.

You can see their work here as I borrowed different lines and dots from their design projects in order to express my own metaphorical vision: being a multimedia artist I always try to relate my work to the world around us in the strong belief that disciplines intersect, interpenetrate and inseminate each other. I would like to expand the borders of different media, I connect things which at first sight seem to be different or are even considered incompatible like the rationality of mathematics and the poetic nature of art:

In this project of lines and dots my aim is to create a bridge between rationality and art because I believe that the fuzziness of the serpentine lines can be a metaphor of life itself: the mysterious intersection and the zigzagging of lines, dots, and paths of objects, peoples, feelings and times, all tightly interwoven, is at the same time rational, physical but also poetic and transcendental. The lines and dots evoke new meanings in every one of us and as an artist I try to express my personal thoughts about the way how lines and dots can communicate.

The lines and dots here recall my father's and my brother's work but then they "move on" to represent also my artistic point of view. When I edit movies calculating the time of the individual cuts, when I make animations or find new sound rhythms, when I open the camera's shutter speed to see what's hidden beneath the surface, I still observe the lines: how they meet, converge and split how they run along their infinite secret paths.