Tracing…

This is an imagination of how life grows within her body.

On the day the pregnancy was confirmed, the pattern from April Kam's teenage years returned automatically. It reappeared again three and a half years later, when she was pacing through the living room with a toddler, this time as tracks of their movement. It stayed, in the form of repeated, automatic line drawings inspired by the traces left within the research subject: the living room. The site that contains the movements, the laughter, the struggles and her new reality is translated to paper in intimate scale. The drawings invite you to come closer, to look at her family's private life, the paths they crossed, and the room they try to leave for one another.

The tracks above began as time lapse footage, recorded by a camera mounted in a high corner of the living room. They were mapped by hand from 2022 to 2026, and are now mapped with code. These lines are the source of the drawings.