Continuing the year's project of choosing random images from the print media as subject material from which to draw, one of the appeals of working from readymade, photographic sources is the absolution such a method grants from consideration of the issues of composition, design, space, etc & also the choice of ostensible ‘subject’ matter (although this aspect of the work’s appearance is in fact unimportant, the subject being, as ever, the process of drawing, mark-making, itself - the 'work' of art).
This image in particular offered interest in its strikingly cropped format & large area of ‘empty’ space. Such an image also highlights another such photographic standard as focus & thus presents a different challenge in terms of the technical rendering of space & distance to someone habitually used to working with the effective representation of objects arranged in three-dimensional space.
Graphite/21x30cm
Original source: ‘The Times’ 23/01/08
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