Ingrid Calame
Ingrid Calame traces the contours of stains she finds on the streets of various cities. Calame's technique mimics the appearance of gestural abstraction: the meticulous tracing preserves every splatter, trickle and drip of the original stains. Calame says, "I trace the lacey stains left by the evaporation of nameless liquids, their contours determined by the viscosity of the vanished fluid and the texture of the surface which it pools." These map-like images serve to document an intimate record of pedestrian life.








