The purpose of this particular image as source material lies not in its ostensible subject matter - which is of no significance - but rather in its formal, ‘quintessentially photographic’ qualities: the obvious statement of discrete areas of focus within the whole image & the consequent dialogue between the clearly-defined & blurred areas of its composition. As previously mentioned, this also seems akin to human vision, where immediate, select(ed) details are focussed upon & properly ‘seen’, with much of the information entering through the lenses of the eyes remaining peripheral & undefined, indistinct, this particularly applying to things, objects, in very close proximity.
The subject of the drawing, as ever, is the ‘all-over’ process of transcribing the image through mark-making, each mark of equal significance, possessing equal ‘weight’, individually & collectively within the overall composition of the image, with no hierarchy of in/distinctness particular to the photographic original from which it is sourced.
graphite/40x30cm
original source: 'The Daily Telegraph' 19/02/08
Soundtrack:
Galaxie 500 ‘Today’, ‘On Fire’ & ‘This Is Our Music’
Low ‘Secret Name’ & ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man ‘Out of Season’
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset ‘The Bairns’
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