Wobudong – an exhibition of writing without meaning (http://w0budong.wordpress.com/)
I am working on this project – gestural writing on pebbles. I wrote in watercolour on a stone in Newlyn, Cornwall, where the tide would come in and wash it off. I’ve now been to my local river and collected stones and discovered that the layer of rock here (Abergavenny) is Lower Devonian Rocks & Alluvium (same types as where I was in Cornwall in August (see British Geological survey :https://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/mapViewers/home.html?src=topNav)).
I have a pinterest board here: http://www.pinterest.com/catherinewp/pebbles/ with images I am using to consider what I am doing in relation to some of what has come before.
I found, looking in Bertrand Russell’s ‘Wisdom of the West’ (p22) that “The Latin word ‘calculation’ means ‘a handling of pebbles’.”
I’ve written on the stones using a paintbrush and water and I was trying to see how many stones I could write on before the writing disappeared.
The presence and then absence of the writing interests me, just as the notion of the sea washing the watercolour off the stone in Newlyn.
