Drawing is a part of my choreographic practice, mostly line-making. Drawing generates a space of thinking and shaping of ideas, operates at different scales, become scores.for moving and writing.
Sometimes I present drawing as installation or as artist page works (material and digital), in journals or self-published zines. I have implemented drawing as a durational activity, opening a time-space, often working with constraints and iterative activities on page, large paper sheet, floor, wall. And also as a material practice, spreading across surfaces of skin, paper, screen.
This page is an (inconsistent) scrolling notebook, a sharing of ‘small’ ideas through drawing, because drawing evolves and records its own devices, structures, strategies, scores, processes – and vocabularies of patterning and composing.
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Light hesitates (turn amid pattern)
parallel lines hum, shimmer, come close to
Hospitalfield Arbroath August 2023
re-drawing over and over,
turning things over and over this way that way
tracing way-finding meandering
2022
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parallel = lines: duplicate units
black fine liner, 3 x 3 cm July 2018
Details emerge through the activity of drawing, lines drawing their
own fascination, becoming a score through iterating and noticing
pattern, between repeating and introducing small difference as interval,
drawing affecting body, breath and nervous system coming into synch
with drawing line, a time-space opens, and the body is scored too,
rhythmically,
a repetitive scoring producing its past and inviting its possible future.
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horizontal towers
black biro 1.5 x 6.5 cm July 2018
Lines enclosing and creating areas or shapes,
drawing one above the other, with gently touching edges, rising up the notebook page
a photographic image rotates the vertical towers 90 degree clockwise.
These simple repetitive scores are activities that take time, can take less or more time, make time, work in time
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knotted lines; one figure
black biro, 8 x 1.5 cm diagonal July 2018
Straight-ish lines quickly drawn diagonally, each interrupted by an intensity of pressure and activity around one spot before moving on. Another line, loosely parallel to the previous repeats the rhythm
– line-vibrate-line -. line-vibrate-line-
a knot emerges, a compact area of energy, speed and pressure.
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3 x knotted lines
black biro +/- 5 x 1.5 cm July 2018
I have pages of these. Here are 3. One of a collection of motifs that emerge.
There is the iterative rhythm of drawing lines and also a rhythm in the decision to start at a new place, to start a new ‘object’; a fleeting shift of the biro-in-hand across the surface.
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diverging parallel curve figures
black biro, 3 x 3 cm July 2018
Drawing operating between line, curve, parallel, angle to produce these shapes
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free parallel intersecting
black fine liner, 10 x 6 cm July 2018
a thing emerges from lines, following parallel and yet increasingly seeming to fold around or circle in. .
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continual line always changing direction
pencil a5 notebook July 2018
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within the limits of the page
black fine liner/pencil a6 notebook July 2018
operating between parallel, edge, diversion, fold, divide
