Light and Shade

graphite & watercolour/30x20cm

Another watercolour that became increasingly dark in tone as the drawing & painting process extended into the waning of the day & thus the natural light, reacting to such changes & revising accordingly, the luminosity mostly lingering around the outlines of the objects & highlighting incidental textural details of, & also reflected from the surface of the pear onto a patch of the PVC-coated plane immediately behind, illuminating that which is seen contre jour & thus cast in shade, the observation of which provided the catalyst for the spatial composition as such, in an effort to represent the effect, The Struggle to preserve & give some form of permanence to that which is insubstantial, intangible, to capture light.

Soundtrack:

K-Punk 'The Metaphysics Of Crackle'
Low 'Secret Name'

There's something about 'The Metaphysics of Crackle', both as an experience itself & the concept generally, that inspires recourse to other music featuring the incorporation of such a sonic texture, as with the recent soundtrack appearance of Portishead & in this particular instance, & 'I Remember' opening 'Secret Name' in suitably crunchy fashion, before bursting into the enduring glory that is 'Starfire'.