graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
Although appearing undoubtedly familiar from a stylistic (& referential), mark-making aspect, this particular drawing in another way (re)presents something also of a quite considerable departure into more obvious narrative territory, that we might choose to leave ambiguous by refraining from over-explication, other than acknowledge the influence of A, with whom the image, employing items of a shared visual & object vocabulary, is primarily intended to engage in a personal dialogue, whilst also, of course, having a universally readable quality.
Utilizing both objects & photographic source material in the composition, the spoon - found, as the familiar flattened cans, upon/in the road (for the purposes of 'integrity', of course) - specifically & primarily references A, but acted as the key to unlock a range of delightful & buzzily-inspiring associations, as they unfurled, with the work of Jasper Johns, such an object featuring both as itself & as represented in various paintings - 'In Memory of My Feelings (Frank O'Hara)' would be an example of the former (suspended, with a fork, to a length of wire), & 'The Four Seasons' the latter, silver painted - & prints over the years.
Much more is embedded & embodied besides, but perhaps a little intrigue is preferable in such a drawing as this, in the interests of allowing the viewer imaginative interpretations.
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