Three Days is an ongoing series of mediated drawings. Alluding to the historical role of art as documentation, each work is a visual record of time passing in a particular place.
Once the paper is left in-situ, my control over the outcome is surrendered and chance becomes a key component in the art-making process. Decisions are made of course; where the paper is placed, how long it is left in the elements, whether to include it in a body of work (a legitimising experience for a soggy piece of paper with slugs on it) or whether to discard it as rubbish as a few well-intentioned passers-by have done for me. But how the charcoal pools around a fallen leaf after an especially heavy downpour in Three Days Rain Under Bamboo - that singular mark was beyond my control. An uneasy yet liberating exercise for an artist.
Through this collaboration these pieces have recorded something that I couldn’t have captured deliberately. Something essential to that particular time in that particular place.
Time marches forward. Too often we are distracted from the miraculous reality of our existence by the seemingly urgent distraction of daily life needing to be lived. These works are a pause. Creating them is an exercise in deep awareness and presence. Never have I been more conscious of a slowly turning tide than I was while watching Three days Lakeside slowly disappear under murky waters for the sixth and final time.