West Heading East - Clare Wardman - Part 1

Durational Drawing 24 June 2009 16:38 to 21:14 (4 Hours and 36 Minutes)

Enche De Chine A La Pagode on Fabriano Accademia Paper Rolls 2.5 m high by 6 m long

Clare Wardman - Porthmeor Studios St Ives Cornwall

Thematic series - Sunset - West Heading East.
A drawing concerned with the movement of natural light and shadow through the great studio window.

Including concepts and ideas from poetry, philosophy, critique and artists writings:

Mallarme (Stephane) "Swan imprisoned in the white paper"
Kierkegard (Soren) "repetition and self repeating"
Motherwell (Robert) "strength of structure, never ending and never fading" "always living and becoming, yet always already about to die"
Oriental "pure essence, nothing between your being and the external world." "trying to express mindlessness"
Lee Ming Wei "the fabric of memory"
Flann (Jack D) "large and small measures of time"

From the most exquisite beginnings as light moves through its cyclical journey through the studio to the drawings most extreme feature the vast distortion of unfolding shape and metaphor. Sunlight and gridded apertures creating a matrix of line and gesture - how does one describe the first mark?


Film by Amy Sampson

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