Grids, Lines, Blocks: Basics Tools to Build Linear Habitats by Marilyn Stablein

When architects, builders, artists and sculptors begin a project their delineated plans or blueprints begin with drawings on graph paper with grid lines. Grids, Lines, Blocks explores some of the tools used. Four components housed in a box-shaped collaged sculpture include A Graph Sampler with a dozen samples of vintage graph papers that evoke an old stationer's shop; A Writer's Book of Graphs which plays on literary terms with the word graph (Greek, to write) e.g. autograph, paragraph, all written on a seismographic scroll which tracks earthquakes, common in the NW Cascadia bio-region where I live; A Block Book, a six-sided hexahedron cube with stories about blocks, and lastly six wooden collaged blocks to evoke an element of play to invite the reader to stack and arrange the blocks.