what i did in tahoe [click to enlarge], Celeste Byers

There’s a well-fed restlessness within Byers, evidenced by a density and detail in many of her drawings that flirts with pathological, the variety of media and styles she experiments with and the sheer speed at which she produces it all.

Along with the myopia required to draw pieces like ‘what i did in tahoe’, which playfully utilises geometric repetition and evolution to create views part-way between Buckminster-Fuller’s telephone doodles and 70s acid landscapes, there’s an endearing seam of folksy craft throughout - in this case, the slapdash assembly of the constituient sheets of paper on a wall to photograph the whole.