messagefield is a mode of work conceived for the sixth international Armenian Biennale; evolving and exhibited since 2002.

messagefield projects use an apparatus that is adapted to produce a drawing by the movement of wind, water, a tree, or other objects and parts of the moving environment. With one exception, the images shown here are details of drawings approximately 38 cm square. The night photo shows the first of more than 20 apparatuses, working in Gyumri, Armenia in 2002.

‘Wind drawings’ and other works have been performed in various parts of the world (ex., on the Bosphorus, Mt. Denali, the Acropolis, and on the UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus); at socially meaningful times (ex., the one-year anniversary of 9/11, during the birth of a child); and through meteorological and lunar phases of interest (ex., lunar eclipses, hurricanes). They are also used to identify liminal areas of both temporal and spatial reckoning, such as tidal zones, contested political areas and year transitions.