The idea behind these drawings was to see if I could capture a sense of materials moving and shimmying around the rock as it moves across the beach. To some extent this comes across in the video I made compiling the pictures from the tracking, but I wondered if drawing could be used as a tool to enhance this further.
I feel the drawn element brings in an abstraction that is not present in the pictures alone – the materials surrounding the rocks are flattened to unknowable shapes and textures, becoming unlabellable in much the same way as my sculptures defy categorisation. The mark-making also bridges the gap a little between the sculptures and the rock tracking – two works which seem to be running alongside one another but until with no overt crossovers. It could be interesting therefore, going forwards to the degree show, to consider what the two would bring to one another were they to be shown in the same space, or if they should instead be kept entirely separate. Would they compete with one another or compliment each other?
Anna Harris 