Kent Lins

Kent Lins has been focused on line-dense image-making since his studies at UBC Okanagan in the mid-’80s. He painted and drew intensely through the ’90s. In the early 2000s, he took up digital photography, which he practices in its pure form and manipulates into composite drawings.
Lins currently uses Photoshop as a digital instrument to slice his photos into motif segments. These he uses as drawing instruments: compressing, stretching, and repeating motifs in degrees of consonance and dissonance of regular and irregular, linear and compositional elements. Through this he explores the relationship of the original source image to ideations of what they can mean through his manipulations.