LENITION
Lenition drawings. From an ongoing series, 2021-2023
Drawings from everyday notebooks that pay particular attention to the scrawled lines, the accidental or extraneous marks. The drawings are a development of my interest in signs of the the loosening of language and the traces of physical effort behind it, evident in handwriting as in the voice. The drawings become something like visual poems. At the same time, among the mundane notes there are snatches of phrases that had an aphoristic quality, which have been translated into poem-prints. And so the work is shaped by processes of transcription and translation, and the play of intimacy and distance that characterises those practices. I am interested in drawing—and especially copying—as a physical undertaking that performs that play of closeness and distance.