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graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' G2 25/09/08

Being the third drawing processed from the newspaper photographic source of a birch forest, again the mark-making technique of addition & subtraction, in tandem with the nature of the appearance of the source, serves to negate any real sense of spatial depth or recession & compresses attention towards the surface & its pattern of ‘all-over’ activity.

As previously, combining the existing drawings, as the sequence progresses, into a panoramic view relating to the original source.


graphite & putty eraser/digital composite

Soundtrack:


Boards of Canada 'Music Has the Right to Children'
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 'Abattoir Blues' & 'The Lyre of Orpheus'
Moon Wiring Club 'Shoes Off and Chairs Away'
DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing'

Also on a musical note (ahem), a mention for BBC4’s excellent documentary ‘Neil Young: Don’t Be Denied’, the man in his own fascinating words & those of his closest cohorts, from the beginning, & a fine selection of music, from The Squires, through Buffalo Springfield to the work under his own name, with & without Crazy Horse, much of it, from the 60s & on, ahead of its time, timeless, contemporary still; the pulverising rocky, riffy stuff, great monolithic slabs of electric noise of such astonishing, mesmerizing power (& that, in its earliest, nascent form, with the Squires, predates even the legendary Stooges, the godfathers of the minimalist sonic aesthetic) to the ‘sensitive’ acoustic songs (of which he opined that only a limited number could be truly written before lapsing into meaningless formula) that characterise his most popular output over 40+ years. A true artist, driven by his muse, to which everything else must by necessity remain secondary, & a wonderful portrait in words, music & (archive) images.