The cyan-coloured line around the flower-head, seen in the image above, is actually just a guide I drew for a fringed surround. The detail on the left below shows it without the guide line; the right-hand image is without any lines at all - I am always intrigued by the airy, ethereal little marks which come together to make a whole. One day I want to make a whole drawing just like that, but for now the method may help make some good 'aromas' for my Neruda's boats work.
This is how the Voynich-type plant drawing, begun in April, is growing. It has come quite a way since Virginia Woolf provided my first inspiration for describing the notion of part earth, part flower, and my first few lines exploring a Voynich Manuscript plant as a springboard for the work. The cyan-coloured line around the flower-head, seen in the image above, is actually just a guide I drew for a fringed surround. The detail on the left below shows it without the guide line; the right-hand image is without any lines at all - I am always intrigued by the airy, ethereal little marks which come together to make a whole. One day I want to make a whole drawing just like that, but for now the method may help make some good 'aromas' for my Neruda's boats work. This demonstrates how useful I find it to use my iPad as a tool not just for creating work which would make good prints, but also as a space for experimenting and testing new ideas for work on paper. Each element is on its own layer, so the visibility can be toggled on and off: a good thing for this drawing, because I have a few different ideas for dealing with the earth element in the lower section. I may eventually leave the plain linear form as it is, but I will definitely be trying out a few other things in layers to see what appears.
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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