This is now a direct and immediate response to what Ross has just written below:
HOW PARAPHERNALIA APPEARS IN DRAWINGS TOO.
A drawing, started last night, has been completed today. It now takes first look on my website for current visual projects. It is a pencil drawing of a man (possibly the artist, in fact me) balancing a plinth on its side – shaped like a lozenge – in his right hand and holding a rod like stick in his left hand. On his head he wears a hat made from a fan found in a Christmas cracker.
This Christmas cracker was pulled at the same party, no less the same table, which Ross too attended at the end of last year. So you would even say that our curatorial model began to set itself even then. And our artistic relationship is in fact interrelated.
The man looks to his right to the other side of the room. There, on another plinth properly set on the ground, is a fish bowl containting a round shape. This round shape being an object that now sits on my book shelf, in my bedroom, on the southern side of the Meadows in Edinburgh. Behind the plinth held by the man, is a plant. This plant is taken from a wedding invitation sent to me by my causin who lives in London, and who works for Loreal as a hospitality manager. He is marrying a women in the canari islands later this year.
In the centre of the picture is a source of light that is controlled by an opposing character set to the forground of the image. This character is quite possibly a cross-dresser, her hairy forearms covered with black gloves.
Another partnership unravels with yet more story, yet the formal aspects of the drawing lend themselves to myself and Ross’s collaboration – diamonds really are a transvestite’s best friend. And Cilla Slack herself would back that up for me Ross!
In homage to Ross’s use of diamond shapes in his drawing process, and the appearance of the lozenge in mine, I show you two versions of the same drawing, one affected by graphic the other left to its own devices. Spot the difference.
