coloured pencil & putty eraser/30x20cm
Surprisingly hot on the heels of the previous drawing (although keeping up a rate of production that should be necessary for the proposed ‘Project’ to take any such form) comes a second processed from the visual source material of a combination of an original stamp from the FKS-published collectors’ album ‘Wonderful World of Soccer Stars World Cup 1974’ & an enlarged, A4 photocopy of, this time featuring the second member of the imagined Argentinian squad, alphabetically arranged, one Roque Avallay, who, in common with the initial/preceding player, was subsequently not actually chosen to represent his country at the tournament.
This being the case, & personal memories of the first real football action in which I took an interest being rather hazy in most of the particularities, although a few of the ‘exotic’ names have stuck, the ‘hauntological’ aspect of such a drawing relates to the generality of the 1974 World Cup rather than anything other pertaining to the portrait subject himself (of whom I’ve never previously even heard), but nonetheless the source material is most evocative & is imbued with its own especial vividness, even at almost 40 years’ distance.
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