More of the Same...

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Being the reverse of the compressed can depicting the 'lemons still life' design as featured in the drawing posted immediately previously, & also, incidentally, the 100th drawing of this year.

Soundtrack:


Rae & Christian 'Northern Sulphuric Soul'
White Stripes 'De Stijl'
Tara Jane O'Neil 'A Ways Away'
Moon Wiring Club 'Shoes Off and Chairs Away'
Hanne Hukkelberg 'Rykestrasse 68'

Lemon Squash...

graphite & putty eraser with watercolour/30x20cm

The latest drawing in the 'roadkill' diptych series, processed from found subject/object matter, & featuring, courtesy of the design depicted upon the surface of the compressed can, the representation of a still life composition within the still life of the object itself: the picture-within-a-picture being, of course, a familiar artistic trope.

Soundtrack:


PJ Harvey 'White Chalk'
Cat Power 'The Covers Record'
Mogwai 'Come On Die Young'
Hanne Hukkelberg 'Rykestrasse 68'
Moon Wiring Club 'An Audience of Art Deco Eyes'
Boards of Canada 'In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country'

A Celebration...

Other than the traditional pyrotechnics, today is noteworthy for being the second anniversary of Lauren Nassef's delightful 'A Drawing A Day' feature, an event worth acknowledging & a resource always worth visiting with pleasant anticipation to see what surprise awaits, as the artist continues to generously share her wonderful, beguiling & admirable drawings, which have, not least, such a beautiful, delicate yet purposeful way with line: in terms of the range of subject matter & execution, there's nothing quite like them, as things to be treasured, two years' worth of which constitute a most impressive archive.

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Today the opposite of tomato is Cat Power's interpretation of 'Wild is the Wind'


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Well, if Sigur Ros can entitle an album (), then why not head a blog post with an apostrophe?!

The reason being...in an incidental kind of way, perhaps the most notable feature of the synechdochal fragments of brand identity visible amongst the folds of the found 'roadkill' subject/object matter of this latest drawing is the double incidence of an apostrophe, a rare if not possibly unique occurrence of a punctuation mark within the general context of this particular body of work.

More punctuation-as-art in the form of a work in neon, 'Bones', by Fiona Banner, an artist long-immersed in the use of language as her formal means, as may be explored on her website.
A site-specific exhibition context instance of 'Bones' may also be found here


(about two-thirds of the way down the page).

Soundtrack:


Cat Power 'Moon Pix'
Lamb 'What Sound' & 'Between Darkness and Wonder'
Echo & the Bunnymen 'Crocodiles' & 'Heaven Up Here'

Re-Emerging

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Soundtrack:


The Birthday Party homemade compilation
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset 'The Bairns'
Hanne Hukkelberg 'Rykestrasse 68'

Hot on the heels of The Fall come The Birthday Party, sounding better, more vital, than, perhaps, ever, nipped in the bud that the Bad Seeds might flourish: magnificently disgraceful/disgracefully magnificent beaten & bloody tumbledown majesty, possibly the most fitting soundtrack of all to the 'roadkill' drawings.

Drinking to Art History Again...

Today the opposite of tomato is 'this new Kurt Weill razor unit, made with the highest British attention to the wrong detail'


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...Even if only with a shandy on this particular occasion!

As a perfect example of found 'roadkill' subject/object matter for the continuing diptych series of drawings, this can displaying the branded legend 'Bass' (& aestheticized most pleasingly with patches of rust) certainly got the old art historical juices flowing, recalling instances where it had occurred previously, at least a couple of times in Cubist table top still life compositions by Picasso,



(both images from Harrison, Frascina & Perry 'Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction', Yale/OU)

and the iconic red triangle also featured earlier (1881-2), amongst the array of bottles upon either side of the 'Bar at the Folies-Bergere' by Manet.


(image from Bernard 'The Impressionist Revolution', Macdonald Orbis)

Soundtrack:


Chris Whitley 'Living With the Law'
Duke Special 'Songs From the Deep Forest'
The Fall '50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong'

Remembering John Peel again, at the time of the fifth anniversary of his passing (26th October), & a fitting tribute provided by the sonic juggernaut of The ('Mighty') Fall, appropriately magnificent after all these years, 'Classical-ly' so, indeed.

And More Readymade Cubism #2

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This drawing processed from the reverse side of the sheared, sharded 'roadkill' can as featured immediately previously, with a touch of colour to bring out aspects of its branded livery.