Autobiography of a Drawing 2009
Pencil on Paper
Exhibited at Bloc Space. Sheffield.
‘Autobiography
of
a Drawing’ is part of an on-going series of drawings based,
in part, upon journeys or rather, ways of moving from one
point to another in time and space within a drawing. The
image of a real journey is worked out on a map and
transferred onto paper. A kind of reconstruction is then
undertaken, using pencil, around this route and keeps going
to create a new form out of a continuous line. The idea of
taking a line for a walk seems appropriate as the line
continues for as long as there is access within the drawing
and room on the page. The activity is meditative, slightly
neurotic and painfully time consuming, rather like mulling
an idea over and over until it starts to lose meaning or
takes on a wholly different form or character to the
original. This drawing maps the physical journey of its own
creation. The route shown is that of the drawing pad as it
is carried from my home, via the shop on Fargate where I
bought the pencil that I used to make the drawing, to my
studio at Bloc, and back again. Although the process is
initially motivated by logic the results become organic
resulting from accidental deviations and my own
subconscious, aesthetic desires.