graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
Continuing with the sequence of drawings processed from pre-existing visual sources, the original image in this instance being found in a book, encountered at the site of the day job, entitled ‘New Angles’, upon the subject of Ronald Traeger’s photography from the 1960s, & featuring specifically the actress Geraldine Chaplin ‘during the filming of La Grenouille, London, 1967’. Again, the pensive character of the subject suggests something of a narrative element, perhaps, involving the viewer in the possible psychological aspect of the content.
In more familiar formal terms, the original image itself displays that very particular photographic depth of field & focus (& sharp tonal contrast of blacks & whites), the figure sharp against the blurred background of buildings, thus presenting a challenge to its re-mediated representation, resolved in this instance by a combination of broader, looser marks & more refined ones, across the spatial continuum of the surface, relating to the focus of the source. Perhaps a technique to develop more generally...?
Soundtrack:
Pavement 'Brighten the Corners'
Laura Marling 'I Speak Because I Can'
She & Him 'Volume Two'
Scritti Politti 'White Bread Black Beer'
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