Dotted Lines have been used in navigating from one place to another from the conception of cartography up to even today. They often punctuate agreements between two parties, merging visions and paths forward. The repeated up and down motion of a dotted line is a visual rhythm of the clock ticking away.

 

David Bowie once sang, “Time might change Me, But you can’t trace time”. If there was a way to trace time, is it possible that it might involve a dotted line? A relationship between presence and absence? A dance between the now and then? Something that involves what we can and can’t see, what we think we know and what we have yet to learn?

 

​Herry Koo is an artist that finds comfort in dots, so much so that it takes a good portion of his valued time. His work reflects all these questions while keeping the mood playfully nostalgic and tethered to an open ended sense of ongoing adaptation.

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Koo’s visual language recently expanded into three dimensional expressions through his ceramic works. The playful color and textural combinations seen in his drawings come to life and join us in our day to day through their practical function.