I feel as if my work is all about discovery at the moment, I’m learning a lot about the different materials that I’m using; their limitations and possibilities. I have only a certain degree of control over the materials. I am to a certain extent initiating the interplay between materials but then standing back and allowing chance happenings to occur. Dropping the ink onto the water saturated surface and then watching as it disperses and follows the form and direction of the water.
Drawing or markmaking can express what language cannot. As Heiner Bastian says in relation to Cy Twombley’s drawings:
“No artist has in his work, as radically as Cy Twombley, substituted language for an expression that suspends and interrupts the discourse, the rhetoric of occidental culture. Twombley insists on the transparency of the most transient of all forms, the state of conception and comprehension, when the form itselfis the untranslatable event.”
