McFadden’s Flats is part of an ongoing project in which the artist uses visual excerpts from old comic books, sketches, her own doodle approximations and mark-making, as well as details from previous works. The vocabulary of signs is the material for Martineau’s drawings, sculptures and embroidery work which creates a new context for the production of ideas. In her practice, Luanne Martineau investigates the relationship between subject and object in narratives. For a few years, she has been using an old comic strip based on immigrant ghetto life (The Yellow Kid by R.F. Outcault) as an object for her investigation. Her method is to decontextualize visual excerpts, pushing them further into abstraction. By doing so, Martineau underlines the problematic of authority in narratives.