it’s worrying – covidcard no. 101
This was quite a rapid sketch. I made it in response to a news item I read about what is going on in Chile, regarding the rise in COVID-19 cases despite a huge vaccination programme. ""It's worrying," he said last Friday.
drawn to… A Piece for Tape Recorder – Vladimir Ussachevsky
A Piece for Tape Recorder is an amazing piece of music. It was recorded in 1956 and it still sounds like a transmission from the future. To make it, Vladimir Ussachevsky used "a gong, a piano, a single stroke on
garlic-breath distancing – covidcard no. 100
'Garlic-breath distancing’ is no. 100 in the covidcard series of drawings. I noticed the headline in The Guardian on 15 April 2021.
drawn to… Unerforschtes Gebiet A – Thomas Köner
I used a Marco 9001 sharpened pencil with the paper placed vertically to draw blind to the 21:50 track Unerforschtes Gebiet A by Thomas Köner from his Unerforschtes Gebiet album. It's an album of bitter cold, creaking ice and cutting
rotten fish: Day 1 of 100 Days of Brexit
rotten fish: Day 1 of 100 Days of Brexit
drawn to… Vertigo KO – Phew
Why not draw while listening to LPs? It was a simple enough premise, and, in these COVID-times I thought it'd be a good time-filler, and it was. I decided to start this mini-project by drawing while listening to Vertigo KO
drawn to… Music On A Long Thin Wire – Alvin Lucier
This is the third in my small series—where I draw to a particular piece of music—hence the 'drawn to..' project title. I drew each of the four drawings below blind while listening to a 6 minute 43 seconds excerpt of
drawn to… Palm Sugar Candy – Oren Ambarchi
I first heard of Oren Ambarchi last year, when I stumbled across the Patience Soup collaboration with Phew and Jim O'Rourke. Somewhat embarrassingly—given how good his music is—I'd never heard his solo work until last week. I dug around his
covidcards
This project makes more sense the more it goes on. A few months ago, I realised that I was basing each drawing on some phrase or word relating to COVID-19 that I either heard on the radio or read on
vive nowhere
Nowhere is safe. Vive nowhere. From my Instagram. The support bubbles project keeps on coming. It's not something I planned or thought out in any way, but it seems to make sense to continue. The lexicon—that now accompanies our new ways