![]() “ Emergence of something new, from bits of now, past, place, data, mark, detritus, architectural parts, diagrammatic language, maps, lines, shapes, color, hue, synth, tempo, sonic, mutant. The writing continues later with her articulations regarding her studio as a place and how her mental process develops and progresses during her work there. Mehretu’s descriptions however, attempt to give the reader a sense of her experience of working, of her total immersion in producing the work and how this process flows both in her mind and from her presence in a studio. Long leaves the viewer of his work to assemble their mental image of his walk, gathering their own experiences and superimposing them on the template he lays out for them. These to me are slightly reminiscent of the textual works of Richard Long where he describes the walks across sections of countryside, noting how he walks, what he sees and what he does. Her total absorption in her work only leaves her able to articulate a staccato. ![]() ![]() Immersed within her world, her abstraction, her piece she only has enough mental energy to utter single words and brief descriptions of her actions and thoughts. Notes on Painting is essentially a monologue by Mehretu when she is absorbed in the process of painting. This writing is a mix of self-instructions or descriptions when work along with the statement of gestures and motions used in the creation of the work. The initial task was to obtain and read the section as noted, (Graw and Lajer-Burcharth, 2016).
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