In Various, Elsewhere, Ongoing, Marc Nagtzaam reduces drawing to its essence: attention, repetition, and time. Using graphite, he builds up a dense field of lines and hatchings, layer upon layer. What appears from a distance to be a dark, solid surface reveals, up close, a rhythmic structure of subtle shifts — lines that grow slightly thicker, corners that don’t quite meet.
Nagtzaam works within a self-imposed system, yet within that order he allows room for the hand’s own contingencies. This creates a delicate tension between control and deviation, between regularity and rhythm. The title points to a sense of continuity: the work seems part of a process that is never complete, always expanding — elsewhere, again.
The drawing embodies concentrated labour, but also a search for balance. It is not an image that seeks to represent something, but a space that takes shape through attention and time – a visual train of thought that keeps unfolding.