Studio| 20/02/17: Moving farther into abstraction after looking at artists such as Agnes Martin, I’ve been looking at the impact of gesture. The CPI drawings are incredibly rigorous, almost mantra like in their transcription of the consumer price index. Here I was allowing amore natural response to a sound piece made in relation to the numbers.
First the numbers are converted into notes on a guitar. This song of numbers is played and recorder. The gestures are then recorded through a charcoal drawing.
Each rising note in the ‘song’ is drawn upwards, a falling note going downwards and a note staying at the same tone is drawn perpendicular to the other lines. There is a more instinctual response to the sounds, allowing the numbers to become completely abstracted through a series of performative abstractions.
