Journeys out of Leipzig on the German Autobahn towards the Baltic coast have allowed her to record the continuum of a moving car. Individual frames from these video images, separated by less than a second, are selected and transferred onto the computer, to be enlarged and manipulated, before being placed face down onto a block of plywood to act as a line template for her carving in wood. The motorway as the means of access between one urban centre and another is explored with precise and repeated 'cut' marks, and a grey and white approach to colour, to suggest monotony as well as the indefinite expansion of the man-made into the natural landscape. The artist's own personal relationship with motorway travel as a symbol of post-unification freedom in Germany further complicates the relationship with this constructed environment. Presented by the Art Fund through Art Fund International.

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The artist.