This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?". The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...
Monday, April 06, 2009
Still 'Tyred-Out'...
graphite, putty eraser & pasted paper/30x20cm
Continuing the aluminium can 'roadkill' & double black lines series of drawings, this example - again a composite image processed from a photographic original of the roadside & a photocopy of the found discarded object - employs strips of torn paper to create its linear element, the lines of the tears being similar to the uneven edges of the painted & overpainted road markings. This obviously gives to the drawing an element of slightly three-dimensional texture which in turn creates a dialogue with the drawn texture of the tarmacked road surface & also the objects of flattened can & cigarette.
Soundtrack:
Lambchop 'Is a Woman' & 'OH (Ohio)'
Mazzy Star 'So Tonight That I Might See'
Laura Veirs 'Years of Meteors'
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