BROOKLYN, NY.- Robert Walden’s Ontological Road Maps suggest aerial views or maps of elaborate urban zones complete with housing developments, industrial areas, and business districts. However the accustomed crisp printing of ordinary maps gives way to the insistent presence of the hand of the artist, as one imagines him making each of the fine delicate lines that constitute his webs of transit networks. Outworn as the trope may seem, the trace left by the artist’s gesture has lost none of its power to evoke the existence of its maker. It is the record of a moment in time, the passage of which is felt through the accumulation of marks. However, each drawing also offers a concentrated, telescoped view of each and all of the moments of its making. This representation of time as both sequential and as simultaneous representation of innumerable moments is akin to the way that the aerial views in the works represent space. One moves through