Sunday, March 29, 2009

Gutter/'Stars'

Today the opposite of tomato 'is a man who's nostalgically prone'


graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm

A further example of the series of drawings processed from original photographs of local overpainted roadmarkings, this one departing from the horizontal format thus far employed in the interests of attempting to create something of a different formal dynamic within the image. This drawing is also a combination of separate sources, the ‘roadkill’ can being a photocopy of a found object, as with an earlier recent example.

Soundtrack:


Martin Stephenson ‘There Comes a Time’ (Best of)
PJ Harvey ‘Is This Desire?’
Morrissey ‘Vauxhall and I’
Mazzy Star ‘So Tonight That I Might See’


And another selection of musical blasts-from-the-past (how pleasant to become very recently reacquainted with Martin Stephenson), excellent all in their own idiosyncratic ways (the first three artists especially, & the narcotic timbre of Hope Sandoval's voice is quite unlike any other, bestowing upon Mazzy Star their singular quality).

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