graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
No abatement in the process of drawings sourced from photographic portraits of footballers as found in a 1970-vintage soccer annual, the hand-made representation of mechanically reproduced images (including the additional layer of the latter, the photocopy of the original that serves as the direct visual reference).
The portrait subject in this curious, intriguing gallery of players that might reasonably be considered to have existed outside of the firmament of ‘stars’ (at least other than for the clubs they represented & with whom, perhaps, achieved favoured, cult status), operating in those ‘bread & butter’ levels below the highest echelons of the game that attract by far the greater share of publicity & glamour, is another that research reveals to be sadly now deceased (having been, in fact, for some time), adding an air of poignancy to post-proceedings (most often the research comes after the process), the drawing-as-trace, of time having passed, as indeed it has since the moment of photographic recording that fixed the original image of the young man depicted.
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