Lyse Lemieux’s interdisciplinary works centre on drawing and extend into painting, sculpture, and installation. Lemieux’s drawings often eschew ordinary mediums such as ink and graphite, in favour of more supple, tactile materials such as felt. The straps of a padded life preserver from a 1964 G.I. Joe doll, owned by the artist’s brother, become Lemieux’s drawing medium in Front ties (Life vest #11). She transposes this material into digital software, where it is layered, interwoven, and made translucent. Scaled to uncanny proportions and lit with haunting ambience, the straps’ minute details – fine stitching, canvas-like texture, filaments of lint – appear equally tangible and ethereal. Front ties (Life vest #11) conveys the formally rigorous, kinetic sensibility for which Lemieux’s drawings are widely admired, as well as her imaginative creation of linework.