Today is the last scheduled day for my daily drawing. It has been interesting to see how the lines have formed. I expected to produce a dense, black drawing over thirty days but this doesn’t seem to have happened. The lines appear to have gathered and accumulated into groups.
I make sure, as far as possible, that I start and end each line in a different place and then move the biro horizontally (50 times), or vertically (175 times) across or along each section. The more lines I’ve drawn the darker some sections have become and small, elongated gaps have formed where the biro slips into particular grooves or paths made over the month.
There are a few blobs and smudges where the biros have blotted or clogged but there are still definable lines.
I am looking forward to installing it at the degree show and have to make some decisions around either displaying it one long length (as it’s been made) across three pasting tables or to cut and display the sections separately.
I’ll also be incorporating some of the sound recordings into the space. The recordings have an ethereal, organic quality that is opposed, I think, to the production of the biro drawing.
