Something of an absence from making...a continuum of reflections and questioning of not so much the conceptual reasoning but the pure reasoning that one threads within the making. This latest offering is very simply a tracing of Roland Barthes
"Camera Lucida"... his phenomenological reflections on the nature of the photographic image...each of its 119 pages including photographic images traced with a 2B pencil on drafting paper. It started out as an 'in-between' thing...something I thought I would tire of within a few pages but it seems to have gained momentum with elements of poetic detachment and meditative diversion.
rendering a ghost of the book, the opposite of a palimpsest
ReplyDeleteyes M.C. i think your right...the palimpsest of this would be its erasure...but I don't think I'm that brave.
ReplyDeletewow....I just love this. I've just been reading a bit about this history of the book....and scribes carefully copying, allowing the printed word to be handed down through the ages. Is this not a bit of that magic....tracing, the trace. Thanks for sharing your work on this project! Cheers, Patti
ReplyDeletei was in geelong when your work was, and your talk and i drove by the university...but i didn't find out about it until a day later, back in melbourne. go figure. i missed out. rats.
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