Gordon House 2018-19
These drawings are the result of two short residencies at Gordon House, Margate, UK and were exhibited at Gordon House and at the Oslo Academy of Art.
The drawings were made by placing 30x30cm layout paper onto the uneven surfaces and isolating a 20cm square with a gridded window. I would then attempt to draw straight lines with a pencil and a ruler. For each drawing, I used the same pencil (an HB graphite stick, in a holder), the same ruler and the same size and weight of paper. Each drawing is produced in the time it takes to draw 39 horizontal lines, each with a 0.5cm space between each. Each line would take approximately 3 seconds to draw, with a gap of approximately 6 seconds to reposition the ruler before the next line. Each drawing takes about 6 minutes from the first drawn line to the last. The composition in these drawings is a subjective choice of where to place the paper, aided by a viewfinder to frame and isolate a particular surface. These drawings are a development of the Circus Street project from 2015 and the Breath Drawings.
