Effacing

graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' 10/12/08

Without wishing it be misunderstood or misrepresented that The Project might be becoming something of a haven for terrorists, as they may say (following the recent drawn flirtation also with the Baader-Meinhof gang), the particular appeal of the original composite image from which this drawing was processed (eventually) - aside from its cellular format, obviously (referencing our old faithful Modernist grid & the multiples of Andy Warhol amongst others) - lies in the degraded nature of the newspaper reproductions of apparently themselves poor-quality originals, resulting in a very grainy image that suggests strongly the 'unpainted' appearance of Gerhard Richter's photographically-derived portraits & figures - where detail & clarity is effaced - & thus brings the finished drawing itself palpably into such a sphere of visual reference. Technically, as is habitual, the drawing process involves a significant degree of erasure (as a positive, creative act in constant dialogue with the graphite marks made) in the resolution of the image-content.

Soundtrack:


Charlotte Gainsbourg '5:55'
Moon Wiring Club 'Shoes Off and Chairs Away'
Lambchop 'Nixon'
Nick Drake 'Five Leaves Left'
Pulp 'Hits'
Sundays 'Reading, Writing & Arithmetic'
Beck 'Odelay!'
Murray Lachlan Young 'Vice & Verse'
Cat Power 'The Greatest'
Elliott Smith 'Either/Or'
Tori Amos 'Boys for Pele'
Lambchop 'Aw, C'mon'/'No You C'mon'
Belle & Sebastian 'Push Barman to Open Old Wounds'

Digging out a few 'haven't listened to that this year (& possibly a lot longer)' examples, there, in amongst the enduring drawing-companion listening...