Sheffield University's Festival of The Mind
visual arts exhibition: uncertainty
Artist: katy devine
Title: Field inertia (i)
media: blue chalk on white paper size: 860 x 860mm (one of a series of five)
A grid (such as that found in graph paper) is a construct used throughout the ages as a uniform, modular system. My interest in it as a device for the development of design as well as a means to deconstruct spatial fields led me to create my own graph using tools of the building trade. A tape measure, nails, a hammer and a plumber's chalk line were employed in the execution of the drawing on a sheet of paper (86 x 86cm). My dedication to the precision of control in the making process was strictly maintained throughout. The lines, however, were created by releasing the tension of the chalk-coated string of the plumber's line to 'ping' the blue chalk into place on the paper thus forcing me to relinquish some of my control in the mark making process. The result is a graph whose blue lines (which at first appear uniform) actually shift and resonate with subtle nuances. Be it a deviation from the true vertical, a heavier weight of chalk which brings stronger definition to the mark or a ghosting effect where the chalk has lifted off & occasionally double-bounced. The drawings have an ethereal quality which manifests itself somewhere between the logic of the grid and the uncertainty of it's actual form.
http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/
visual arts exhibition: uncertainty
Artist: katy devine
Title: Field inertia (i)
media: blue chalk on white paper size: 860 x 860mm (one of a series of five)
A grid (such as that found in graph paper) is a construct used throughout the ages as a uniform, modular system. My interest in it as a device for the development of design as well as a means to deconstruct spatial fields led me to create my own graph using tools of the building trade. A tape measure, nails, a hammer and a plumber's chalk line were employed in the execution of the drawing on a sheet of paper (86 x 86cm). My dedication to the precision of control in the making process was strictly maintained throughout. The lines, however, were created by releasing the tension of the chalk-coated string of the plumber's line to 'ping' the blue chalk into place on the paper thus forcing me to relinquish some of my control in the mark making process. The result is a graph whose blue lines (which at first appear uniform) actually shift and resonate with subtle nuances. Be it a deviation from the true vertical, a heavier weight of chalk which brings stronger definition to the mark or a ghosting effect where the chalk has lifted off & occasionally double-bounced. The drawings have an ethereal quality which manifests itself somewhere between the logic of the grid and the uncertainty of it's actual form.
http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/
