In her artistic work Linda Karshan confines herself to the traditional medium of drawings, using mainly pencil, sometimes also turpentine and brush as artistic means.  However, her drawings are not drawings in the usual sense.  Lines receive new meaning in her works.  They are not lines of contours which outline a certain object and which are subordinate to it.  In Linda Karshan’s works lines have become independent, expressing intuitive emotional and mental processes.  Thus the artist herself does not only speak of lines, but of dashes, by which she means short notations in the form of graphic representations, which are not to be seen as isolated abstract letters or characters, but can be “read” only in the context of the finished drawing.  Linda Karshan creates her drawings standing at a table, which bears already the marks of her intensive artistic work, bent over a large empty piece of paper.  She begins to put her notations at random, as it seems, which she then continues with utmost concentration and endurance.  There is no given direction.  On the contrary, during the process of work Linda Karshan turns the paper again and again while her hand is drawing. In this way she may even return to places already “dashed”, even several times.  The working processes as such, its beginning and end, cannot be recognized once the drawing has been completed.