A GREAT PIECE OF TURF
Borrowing the title from Albrecht Dürer’s 1503 watercolor by the same name (substituting “A” for “The”), A Great Piece of Turf refers to both lawn, yard and territory. Beck created drawings based on a section of her own yard including a monumental graphite drawing. The drawings are meditations on otherwise mundane plots of land, weeds, and grass. For Field Recordings, clusters of works on paper were made from drawings of territory considered to be brownfields, greyfields, or greenfields—land that is either contaminated, abandoned, or undeveloped. Shifts in scale and material suggest a fragmented unstable landscape.
