[untitled: Football Portrait #17]

graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm

Continuing with the project of drawings sourced from the photo portrait gallery of footballers as found in the vintage 1970-71 edition of ‘Charles Buchan’s Soccer Gift Book’.
Although the subjects make an intriguing & celebration-worthy collection - mostly of players plying their trade outside of the most glamorous reaches of the ‘star system’ &, indeed, the higher levels of the game, previously unknown to me, with this particular example, Brian Heslop (who heroically ended his Football League career at the outpost of Workington, about as far from glamour as it was then possible to get, given the club’s travails that ended with their failure to gain re-election in 1978, the season after Brian’s time), being no exception – the fundamental subject of the drawings is & remains the process of their making itself, the re-mediation (through numerous & various levels, given that the direct visual reference for the drawing process is an enlarged photocopy of the image as reproduced in the book), the ‘de-photographization’ of the mechanically-(re)produced image.