Heather Eliza Walker
Before There Were Saturdays
Ink on paper 2015 - 2016
82 x 60cm
A few close-ups of the drawing:
Before There Were Saturdays
Ink on paper 2015 - 2016
82 x 60cm
A few close-ups of the drawing:
I live in the middle of farmed forest land where spruce trees are cultivated for timber. This means that periodically swathes of trees are felled, exposing old irrigation ditches and swampy pools which have lain in their secret twilight for about 30 years. My rambles consist of trails from pool to pool, where I crouch and just watch the thick waters teeming with activity. Thick and bubbling sludge and lurid algae make me think, this must be how life on this planet began; oxygen and slime combining in a rampant fertility to produce sort of mouldy, sporing gels. I imagine prehistoric life-forms finding the air and going crazy.
One day while I was working on this drawing, it occurred to me that back then time was unregulated by mankind and there was no such thing as a year or a month or a day of the week; so the title Before There Were Saturdays came about. As far as I remember it was a Saturday when I had the thought, which was why I chose Saturday for the title; but then a nice suggestion of partying came into play by association, and the upper section of the drawing became more and more exuberant as I went along!
This particular drawing took about a year and a half to reach completion. I wasn't slaving away exclusively on it during that time, in fact there was a period of about two months when it went onto the back-burner because I wasn't sure where it was going; but when I finally got it, everything slotted into place piece by piece, and here it is, finished.
Typewritten words glued around the border of this drawing:
One day while I was working on this drawing, it occurred to me that back then time was unregulated by mankind and there was no such thing as a year or a month or a day of the week; so the title Before There Were Saturdays came about. As far as I remember it was a Saturday when I had the thought, which was why I chose Saturday for the title; but then a nice suggestion of partying came into play by association, and the upper section of the drawing became more and more exuberant as I went along!
This particular drawing took about a year and a half to reach completion. I wasn't slaving away exclusively on it during that time, in fact there was a period of about two months when it went onto the back-burner because I wasn't sure where it was going; but when I finally got it, everything slotted into place piece by piece, and here it is, finished.
Typewritten words glued around the border of this drawing:
©Heather Eliza Walker 2015 |