Aside from its wonderful photographic quality in terms of the dialogue between various aspects of the image being in & out of focus (similar to the earlier transcription of Chuck Close's daguerreotype of Philip Glass here), the lure of this particular source image - illustrating a G2 feature publishing extracts from Mark E Smith's autobiography 'Renegade: The Lives & Tales of...' - proved irresistible, being a magnificent portrait of a singular character, a great British institution if ever there was. 'He is not appreciated...' (nearly enough).
graphite & putty eraser/20x30cm
original source: 'The Guardian' G2, 14/04/08
Soundtrack:
The Fall, obviously, although, curiously, the delights of '50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong' proved nigh-on impossible to draw along to: despite the repetitive rhythms of the songs, from 'Repetition' itself to the mighty 'Crop Dust', the sheer insistent quality of their music & Mark E Smith's fantastic, uniquely engaging lyrics (however impenetrable) & delivery made concentration on anything other than themselves difficult-to-impossible, evidence again of the singular characteristics of their sonic aesthetic!
It was left, therefore, to Belle & Sebastian's 'Push Barman to Open Old Wounds' & 'Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant', a band as individual & enjoyable in their own way, to provide 'workable' musical accompaniment.
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