Working on this source image – picturing Doris Salcedo’s ‘Shibboleth’ currently intervening in the concrete floor of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall – suggested that its transcription should involve a degree of working-back-into & disrupting the surface as, apparently, does the sculpture itself, removing material to create form.
graphite & plastic eraser/20x30cm
original source: ‘The Times’ 06/03/08
Soundtrack:
Luna 'Best of'
I really like the cover image, redolent of 60s cool & informal sophistication, of the rather splendid ‘Best of Luna’ CD, featuring an illustration by Adrian Tomine, whose website displays a variety of his work in his striking, economical style: good stuff & something to explore further.
One of the things about Tomine’s drawing style is, superficially at least, how much it reminds me of that of Daniel Clowes, whose graphic novel 'Ghost World' & the movie adaptation of I’m particularly & equally fond, not least in their respective visual presentations & styles. Coincidentally, a little light research has just unearthed the information that Daniel Clowes first published work in ‘Cracked’ magazine…
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