11/03/2012 (2)

As it is, it's a complicated idea. Presenting just one element of yourself to an audience that has no idea what you're talking about. You have to be very selective, very concise. Even if, like me, you are perfectly happy to be somewhat cagey and vague... You still have to be selective in your vagueness. By showing a single, technically imperfect, drawing, what am I saying about my practice? It doesn't describe my practice. But then that's not what I intend to do, if it were I could take photos. No, that's not it at all. It shows a single dimension. a thin slice. A vagueness that goes beyond intriguing and into the nondescript... possibly.

This alternative of creating something, making something. Collaging, collaging ideas. Which is what I do... But presenting it in a way that is unusual to me... Graphicky, illustrative... But still vague, yes.
I think this is more appropriate, considering both the issue of having a single page to say something important... and the format this work will be presented in. a bok to be bought and shared. I don't feel it would describe my practice in the light that I'd want it to if I didn't offer something visual and attractive.. Because that is important to me.

I'm making a book that will consist entirely of these drawings... so presenting just one, a single one, amongst works of lots of other artists. It wouldn't behave in the same way as it would, tucked up amongst its friends. It wouldn't do what I want it to.