Artist Statement

I use intricate line and pattern to pay homage to the remarkable complexity and delicacy of our world.  By offering glimpses of distant, dreamlike environments and detailed abstractions, I seek to create works that convey a sense of wonder, lightness and whimsy. The marks, paper cutting and line work that depict the way systems form, plants grow and particles move develops largely through spontaneous linear improvisation.  Before I begin, I have a sense of the way the piece will move, but I prefer to let each line inform the next. This allows for long stretches of meditative immersion in the continual flow of the work. This repetitious line creates optically disruptive, hypnotic patterns that help dislocate the viewer from our ordinary, hard reality and offer a glimpse of a more spacious, un-tethered awareness.

— Danielle Rante

ink and gouache on paper 8 x 10 in.	ink and gouache on paper 8 x 10 in.	ink and gouache on paper 8 x 8 in.
ink and gouache on paper 8 x 10 in.	ink and gouache on paper 8 x 10 in.	ink and gouache on paper 8 x 8 in.