graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
Continuing the Project, with this randomly-chosen subject being Mavula
Mafuila, pictured most unusually for a footballer in bespectacled fashion, this
drawing ‘de-photographized’ & re-mediated from a photocopy of the original
sticker featuring an image of the player
as it appeared in the FKS ‘Wonderful
World of Soccer Stars World Cup 1974’ collectors’ album, featured amongst the
selection representing the debutant name of Zaire.
Chosen as a member of his nation’s official squad for the Finals,
Mavula Mafuila, who died in 1997, did not subsequently go on to make a playing
appearance during the tournament, thus inevitably being another of those
personally unheard-of ‘ghosts’ whose presence is made manifest through such items
& objects of memorabilia as the sticker albums which are serving as the
original source material for the project.
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