Horizontal & Vertical

Another attempt to snatch a drawing from the clutches of the encroaching twilight, this pair of pears also observed, once again, contre jour from a positional viewpoint, carving with an eraser the object’s highlit edges & thus, with tonal gradations, the suggestion of some sense of form from the horizontal spatial continuum that, particularly under such fading natural light conditions, empirically reduces the ‘known’ figure-ground relationship.


graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm

Relating to the previous composition, featuring the light bulb in a naturally-reclining prone position, in addition to providing something of a different aspect to proceedings, the pear placed on its side & resting, poised, upon the tip of its stalk might here also refer to, as a specific example, such as Euan Uglow’s ‘Special Pear’.