Trace - an element of doubt

Backtracking a bit...

It is so long since I started looking at this idea of trace and I have followed so many different trails that it is hard to know how to recap...

Looking back through my sketchbook/logbook I have picked out a few drawings that are important to the investigation.
The image above is of Frances Richardson's work.

She uses very hard pencils and the symbols + and - to create drawings that seem to float off the surface of the paper and the surrounding wall. Close-up the pencil marks form tracks that meander in curves and spirals - each sign is slightly curved or off-axis, the result is a 'rhythmic flow'.

Daniel Zeller is known as a 'micro artist' drawing obsessive structures in near microscopic proportions.
The image above is graphite on paper. Another of his works includes ink lines such as these below, which are my own, after the style of Chris Ofili's drawings.




These drawings are silver pen on brown paper - a variation on my theme to reduce the strength of line and make it more of a trace.

Below is a light drawing by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy which reminds me of microscopic photographs of atoms and sub-atomic particles. The last drawing is pva and graphite on tracing paper - a series of organic squiggles!

posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 9:11 pm