Trace Element Week 1
TRACE n. (1) track left by person or animal walking or running, footprints or other visible signs of course pursued.
n. (2) visible or other sign of what has existed or happened .
I am looking into TRACE - thinking about how we leave a trace in the landscape, how that trace erodes over time and the memory we hold of it. Thinking about the afterimage of a sparkler or car lights along Park Lane at night or time-based drawings with light.
TRACE, perhaps, can also be about obscuring one's identity - masking it with layer upon layer of semi-opaque material. It could conversely be about revealing identity. I am interested to see how far one can go in covering up something and still retain an understanding of what it is. Or how much one must reveal information so that the image/text can be read.
Over the next few months I shall be exploring the idea of TRACE and I welcome your comments!
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 5:49 pm
1 Comments:
Hi Lynda, your blog template looks really professional, the colour combination is great.
I was trying to think of artworks with traces and could only think of Rachel Whitereads 'Ghost'. I'm sure you know it is the cast of a sitting room from a victorian house. Where the cast of the fire grate is there are traces of soot and I believe other, very subtle traces of human existence are also visable. Might be worth a look. I think the Tate own this particular work. Bye for now, Maria.
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