graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour/30x20cm
Another drawing in the ongoing series of 'roadkill' diptychs, the found object/subject matter in this instance having been particularly tightly compressed during its process of complex reformation, slimmed down, battered & gnarled yet still offering sufficient synecdochal formal clues as to its original identity, not just any old fragment of scrap metal.
Soundtrack:
Moon Wiring Club 'A Field Full of Sunken Horses' EP
Rufus Wainwright 'Want One'
Nick Drake 'Five Leaves Left' & 'Bryter Layter'
Recourse to the original recordings became a necessity in the light of the TV broadcast of the Nick Drake 'Way to Blue' concert in tribute to the man & his music: whilst a noble endeavour, most of the interpretations managed to seem too reverential & yet somehow foreground the personality of the various performers to a mutually detrimental degree, Lisa Hannigan's radical take on 'Black-Eyed Dog' being perhaps the one notable exception, making one realise just how unique a talent was Nick, & that the real compelling magic of the songs was best communicated through his own performances of them, the recordings of which remain enduring & essential evidence.
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