These drawings* from 1998-9 are proposals for sculptures I never made. The sculptures would have been movements made solid; imagined movements of doors. Figures 1. and 2. are based on the potential movement of a door in the corner of a studio I shared in Carpenters Road, London. The movement in figure 1. is the… Continue reading Door movement drawings
These are roughs for a project I did in 1997 for a short-lived magazine, Vice Versa. The portraits are of strangers I met in London, mostly on the Southbank. I explained the project to them and asked them if I could take their photograph. Some of them said no. I never knew their names. The… Continue reading What is Art?
This is a draft version of a piece of work that started with a walk. It's a collection of fragments including: a line drawing, drawings from observation and short texts by me and others. The line drawings were made while I walked, by slowly pushing a pen away from me, up a folded sheet of cartridge… Continue reading Fragmentals* (walking and drawing)
I keep sketchbooks, currently using them most often to document moments as I wait for other things to happen (the lights to change, lift doors to open, trains to come, etc.). They're a drawn record of my looking process, and a written record of words I hear while I draw. As these drawings happen in… Continue reading Sketchbooks
These images are stills from Grey Sketchbook 2 video (on Vimeo). The drawings in this sketchbook were done in February 2018, mostly while travelling around London. The text at the bottom of the pages are words I heard while doing the drawings, and sounds in the video are from recordings I made at the same… Continue reading Grey Sketchbook 2 (video)
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