More drawings with different traces
Part of my examination of the idea of trace is to look at what is left behind after an event or passing.
We leave traces of our path through footprints, we leave impressions where we have been sitting, we make marks as we touch things, we leave memories in the minds of those we encounter, we leave a trail of documents, we leave vestiges of our passing all around us - a disturbance in the air or vibration of sound.
We should all like to leave something permanent behind us to mark our presence/existence. It is few whose memory lives on beyond the lifespan of the people who knew us personally. Everything degrades over time and, at an atomic level, becomes assimilated into something else.
My drawings are a first attempt to represent that trace. I'd really appreciate any feedback - to see if any of these drawings capture the ephemeral nature of .... well, existence I suppose.
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 11:51 am
2 Comments:
Dear Lynda,
I like the traces that we leave behind that are not really considered to be of importance, traces such as stains.
You are writing about the want to be remembered. In relation to that, I think trace/ monument is interesting. Monument seem so big, and traces so small. Unlike the monument, I associate traces with vanishing, because they seem fleeting and short-lived. I was also thinking about something Leo mentioned last year, which was drawing with water on asphalt, which leaves these impermanent marks.
For me the glue that you use represent traces. I guess this is because you where in an earlier presentation comparing the glue to the traces that snails leave behind.
When you had cocooned the twigg in glue, then this makes me ask what get caught up in the traces. I think of the spider web, which is indexical of the spider spinning the web (I think), but flies and such also get caught in this trace.
Forensic science, which also deals with the documentation, preservation of traces. And also the way in which one sandwich an object in between two pieces of glass when one want to look at them in a microscope.
Quick words I relate:
Indicator of movement, of time passing, and events
Conservation, preservation, suspension.
Agot
Thanks very much for the comments - I haven't been updating this site recently - but I'll try to change that!
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