graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
original source: 'The Guardian' G2 25/09/08
Or not, perhaps. As with the earlier example of a drawing processed from the particular (colour) newspaper photograph that served as its source, any real sense of spatial recession is negated through the insistent 'all-over' surface activity of the addition-&-subtraction mark-making & monochrome nature of the tonal, graphite image.
Klimt's paintings of forests would again be the particular art historical reference point, similarly patterned & flattened.
Here joining both drawings for a panorama...
graphite & putty eraser/digital composite
Soundtrack:
Nick Drake 'Pink Moon'
Moon Wiring Club 'Shoes Off and Chairs Away'
DJ Shadow 'Entroducing'
2 comments:
Its funny - when I scrolled down and glanced at it first I thought it looked like one of those bark rubbings you used to do as a kid. Interesting that the overall pattern of a forest is so similar to the pattern on a tree trunk.
They're both very good, well-observed points, thank you for making them: the texture of the drawings is very like that of rubbings, & the individual trunks do have a tendency to merge with their neighbours to create an all-over appearance (devilishly difficult to try & work out exactly what's going on & what's what in the source photo).
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