Generator Building Under Wraps. πππ

Various horizon lines drawn from the window of the 11:30am to London Paddington, going through Bath Spa, Chippenham, Swindon, Didcot Parkway. September 2014.
“Not sure if you have tried drawing on a train, most people are too close for you to study without causing a uncomfortable situation and generally stuff is going passed so quickly outside you need a super fast photographic memory to get it in your brain before you can decide how to represent it on the page. So I decided to go for the horizon, because that goes pass slower and if you miss a bit it doesnβt look too weird if you just join on to the continuation.”.
Read more about the trip I took here.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
Saplings drawn in notebook whilst walking through Leigh Woods, Bristol. Winter 2014.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
Looking out of the window in Clifton, Bristol. Summer 2014
Originally drawn as part of a daily drawing project, find out more here.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
Β
Yes, I’ve been pretty shaken up over the last week. Who hasn’t. The drawings here were all made before last Tuesday’s news.
This week I’ve been putting all my energy into redecorating our kitchen, so I haven’t managed drawing yet.
Hopefully soon though.
Be kind. Be useful.
More immediate updates are available on Snapchat & Instagram.
We’ve had a rocky week here in the UK, ICYMI (unlikely).
There’s a lot of anger and resentment on all sides, and it becomes difficult to pull yourself away from the news stream because of the speed with which things are developing.
But we are where we are.
In a recent Guardian panel Paul Mason was asked to give one reason why he thought the Leave vote had won, he said this (I’ve typed it down as best I could from the audio):—
“Many people in this room.//who voted, like me, to remain will be going through a kind of existential crisis of the self, in the sense that the institution we have based our lives around is the EU. It’s the source of our law, it’s the source of our democracy, in as far as there is any, but also it underpins our opinions of social justice. Many of our life chances have gone, some of our young people feel as though their life chances are over, and our sense of self, of who we are, as europeans has been completely challenged by this.
Well.
That’s how it feels to be working class.
If in twenty years time your kids are offered the chance to ‘get one back’ against the people who did this to them, in one single vote, that’s what they’ll do.”
I’m hoping one thing that can come from this is that we learn to understand and listen to ourselves better as a country.
This is the first time I’ve managed to draw anything since last Thursday.
Windows in a public building.
Vball.
10 mins
Notebook: Myrtle.
Limped through Autumn. Working on health a bit more now. Can’t do any harm.
Please follow on Instagram, Twitter or FacebookΒ for more immediate drawing updates.
The rest can be seen here.