'Exhaling Shadows' RedBlack D. Lawrence

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By Signature Art Prize 2022
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

153 × 123 × 5 cm

Materials:

Drawing (Khadi Extra-Large Rag Paper (400gsm), Uni-ball Eye Micro Rollerball Pen, Rosary Peas’, Red Filtered Perspex Container).

Primary Medium:

Drawing

Large
2021
Ready to display
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I often shower in the dark for meditation. Within this wet blackness structure evaporates.........formlessness creeps in and shadows grow skin. At the heart of the work is a questing for the demonic. Drawing for me is like standing upon a frozen lake where beneath the ice I observe redness. The paper is the ice and my pen an ice pick, with this tool I carve into the surface the shadows of tangible entities simmering below, this scarification exposes and amplifies mark making with sculptural intention. I am in pursuit of a sensation that can break the membrane, to move an image beyond its state of illusion and into possession (to hold a presence more than itself). Framing is essential to the presentation of a drawing. Currently containers are produced using blood red transparent perspex. The perspex saturates a drawing with a coloured hue. These sculptural devices aim to instil a distance between the viewer and the artwork (tapping into this idea of the frozen lake as mentioned above), thereby giving the drawings' their own context and world to be held within. The work, Exhaling Shadows', is my point of breakthrough! I consider this piece the true beginning of my practice and that is why it is my signature; it sets the tone for what is to come.

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