Monday, February 21, 2011
The Dancer's Backskin
The Dancer's Backskin, 2011, 21cm x 29cm, 8"x11.5"
ink, watercolour on Moleskin notebook paper.
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the dancer's backskin,
Moleskine sketchbook
the paper
cracked
like a boiled
eggshell
when you
tap it
tap it
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The drawing was an accident - I had bought a new Moleskine notebook, the largest ever for me. When I brushed water over watercolour pencil the paper shredded badly and cracked like an eggshell when dry. Intrigued with the effect, and having seen Natalie Portman's incredible performance in Black Swan, the self-mutilation, the hallucinations, the madnesses, I thought of the underside of the dancer's life. Or her backskin.
In the image you see here, I layered a scan of the frontside of the drawing facing forwards (you can see it in the lines at the borders) under the backside which I made slightly opaque. I banded the dancer's face (some horror there, she is buried alive in her inhuman effort to be graceful for us), and her feet (to remind us of ballet as an echo of Geisha footbinding).
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Stone #44
Powdery snow like a plush carpet under the thick rubber treads of my hiking boots. Patches of hidden skidding ice wake me from revery.
Lineman
Lineman, 2011, computer drawn using this site, Scribbler, and, um,
yeah, Photoshop: http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/
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I may print this and colour or paint it. The figure seems menacing, somehow, and what are those black balls - are they bombs? The image is entangled with Middle Eastern suicide bombers in my mind - that box strapped to his torso...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Stone #43
Grass lays uncombed
like dirty green hair.
A lattice of frozen white water
frames tufts in a lacework of ice.
like dirty green hair.
A lattice of frozen white water
frames tufts in a lacework of ice.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Stone #42
A tired day, my book of ink words, images, obscure, inert, until I open the crisper drawer in the fridge, two papery onions.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Dancers in White
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