graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' 25/09/08
The original photographic source from which this drawing was processed brought to mind very vividly such of Klimt's forest landscapes as the beech example illustrated.
As the drawing progressed, its mark-making process of addition & subtraction soon resembled that of Klimt's painting, where space & any sense of planar recession is negated, all visual activity is compressed towards & at the surface in 'all-over', jewelled, mosaic-like patterned form, abstract in nature, from which, subsequently, the 'subject' & image content emerge as a secondary concern.
The birch trunks that form the ostensible subject matter of the original photograph result, in the drawing, in a pleasing harmony of corresponding vertical & horizontal rhythms.
Gustav Klimt 'Beech Forest'
oil on canvas/1902
Soundtrack:
Lambchop 'I Hope You're Sitting Down'
Sparklehorse 'Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain'
Bat For Lashes 'Fur and Gold'
Groove Armada 'Vertigo'
Beth Orton 'Central Reservation'
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