San Francisco-based artist, Colter Jacobsen uses an idiosyncratic collection of found source material to create drawings and assemblage. Exploring the concept of memory his highly detailed work focuses on notions of disappearance, remembering and forgetting. In his practice, the artist draws from a wide range of unusual objects bought in thrift stores, lost personal items found in the urban environment, or recycled packaging with unusual details. Swabbies (2007), an example of the artist's ongoing series of memory drawings, is a rendering from a found photograph that the artist drew first by looking at the original and then a second time from memory. Displayed side by side, the drawings are technically meticulous. Using personal photographs from an unknown source creates a displaced quality and a feeling of restlessness related to peeking into someone else's life. For Passengers, Jacobsen responds to the concept of the exhibition with a new untitled work based on a postcard that was given to the artist a long time ago depicting a man watching a river go by. One drawing will be created by the artist each month and added to the exhibition in a constant accumulation that correlates to the structure of the exhibition itself while creating a composition in which the river on the different drawings will appear continuous.

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