In formal terms J Rooks drawings are about the balance between line and space, a process of enquiry into the transformative and reactive abilities of materiality and surface. Presented on a small scale, the drawings may be regarded as abstract dialogues, sequences of enactments influenced by association and memory where the relationship between a thought, a mark and a response is formed, grows, changes or breaks down. Concerns with concepts of enclosure and interchange inform her practice, where in she employs the primary force of line to delineate the perception of space, as well as encode mystery in evolving shape.
