6 cold greys + back and white x 2, x 4, x 8, x 16
Colour pencil on paper, image 30x30cm, paper 50x50cm, 2020
6 cold greys + back and white x1,2,4 and 8 ( 2 colums)
Colour pencil on paper, image 30x30cm, paper 50x50cm, 2020
These drawings begun in 2018, build upon a set of digital prints from 2014 (Combinations: Modular Printer Drawings*) and are part of an ongoing series that explore the tonal variations of grey within a dark to light scale and are made using combinations of black, white, six cold greys I- V1I and warm greys I-VI, with some drawings incorporating copper, bronze and gold.
In this practice, drawing is reduced to the elementary activity of marking parallel ruled lines, one after another, in even, systematic and numerical sequences.
As a result, the fluctuation and the irregularities of the manually drawn line are evident. The proposition here is that no one grey tone is inherently preferable to another. Instead, all greys can coexist in equal formations and are presented as they occur in their tonal range and repeated.