A Pair of Pairs of Pears

Continuing the active contemplation of the pears (at least when the frustratingly fugitive available daylight within the circumscribed temporal windows allows: this drawing processed over two sessions, one a morning, the other the next day’s evening, both characterized by a rather unhelpful gloom – but, of course, it’s all about ‘the struggle’, however that might manifest itself!), represented tonally within the spatial continuum in which they have been positioned, this time more expansively as, essentially, a pair of pairs of that function, compositionally, discretely as such (attempting to create some form of tension, a spark, between each object through either their very close proximity or otherwise where they, for once, actually touch) yet obviously relate to each other across & within the picture plane at the same time…


graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm

As with the immediately previous drawing, the challenge, amidst the fluctuating, fading light source, is to describe the form of the pears as they both stand out against & merge with the ground against which they appear, at least as much by a process of subtraction as addition from the ‘neutral’, mid-toned marks initially applied to the paper: the highlit edges of the objects, observed contre jour, obviously aid such an endeavour, sharply defining their shape & then fading to shadow to communicate a sense also of volume.

As the latter becomes more fugitive, the form less distinct, as the light fades (that point at which drawing, or at least that of such a nature, ceases to become a viable possibility), the objects seem to take on something, perhaps, of a spectral nature, existing more as softly glowing haloes of light, the remaining traces of the objects-that-were: maybe filming the scene would produce a more aesthetic experience, something, certainly that might seem to have more of a seasonal resonance..?

Soundtrack:


Jesca Hoop 'Kismet' & 'Hunting My Dress'
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man 'Out of Season'