Marsha Lieberman

The world may be described as a network of constantly shifting relations, where things overlap, share edges, and sometimes even contain one another. Could ideas be described in the same way, adding that they emerge without definitive and singular origin, coming instead from multiple directions during unpredictable or chance encounters?

Thinking about walking as a practice – Walkers can cross predetermined boundaries and more accurately depict the lived spatial experience of an individual or a community. This activity, if made visible, would not be unlike the mark-making a visual artist makes on paper or a canvas, and reminds us that the boundaries described in official […]

The subject of this drawing is overlapping pathways made by two bumblebees visiting a purple salvia plant in my herb garden. The plant is quite large, with flowering stalks that can accommodate many bees at a time. Each bee visited and revisited most of the dozen or so stalks; the distances between each landing (indicated […]

This is a mixed media drawing of an imaginary journey through the environment in which I live. Elements include water features and shoreline, “neighborhoods”, sharp-edged structures of varying sizes, bridges, and the path taken. The perspective is birds-eye, and the palette is loosely inspired by nautical charts. This is one of many small Wayfinding studies… Read more: Walking

A friend who was on a walking journey mentioned that one of her routes brought her to a very large meadow with no visible trace of the next portion of the trail. Without tools – map, compass, or GPS –  she would have had no idea which way to go. The fact that this occurred […]