Board Game Drawings
The Board Game Drawings are interactive art projects that combine drawing tools (pens, pencils, rubber stamps, spray bottles) and methods (drawing, erasing, stamping, etc.) with board game-like elements of chance and decision-making. Visitors sit at tables covered in hand-drawn playing boards and pick cards from the playing card piles. Each card has different directions to follow using the playing boards and drawing tools, such as rolling dice, asking questions of other visitors, spraying and smearing pen marks with a water sprayer, drawing patterns, counting, writing, etc.
Board Game Drawing #1 (Corporeal Chronologies) was active from January 29 to February 7, 2016, during the “Corporeal Chronologies” group show at Elastic Wall Projects, San Francisco, CA. The playing boards (on two tables) are filled with a wide variety of hand-drawn patterns and writing made by the people who contributed to the piece over the course of the two-week show.
Board Game Drawing #2 (Cubberley Stock) was a finalist in the Palo Alto Public Art Program’s “Cubberley Stock” public art competition on March 24, 2019. There was one playing board on a single table, presented to the competition as a proof-of-concept version of a larger project that was to consist of six tables located throughout the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto, CA.