In a rare acknowledgement of topicality here at TOoT, last Thursday’s big domestic football news of Harry Redknapp’s departure from his position of manager of Tottenham Hotspur inspired a spot of archive research into photographic evidence of the man’s playing career – spanning the 1960s – 1970s & thus coincidental with the period that is currently providing the great majority of the source material for drawing practice – which, bearing an appropriately successful result from circa 1971 (just admire that rather fabulous period hairstyle, for instance), led to development into the drawing presented below.
coloured pencil/30x20cm
The colour reproduction source material suggested that the re-mediation should move from the habitual grey graphite into this area too, & thus an exploration of the potential of coloured pencils ensued, resulting in an evident struggle with these tools – a hotch-potch assortment of found objects acquired via the workplace - to resolve some form of image that related to the appearance of the original: as a serendipitous by-product of the process, for all that aspects of it inspired a certain dissatisfaction during, the washed-out, degraded nature of the drawing seems to service the ‘hauntolgogical’ nature of referencing the past & recalling its traces & ghosts.
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