I’ve been reworking the graphite shadow-drawings of stones, by polishing with cloth, erasing and redefining. I placed the first darker image above the 2nd, the solid rocks of the cliff perpendicular to the ground, where fragments fall. I used the first image to inform the process of drawing into the 2nd – giving it more presence – in an attempt to reconstruct the crumbled elements. Stippled pigment activated with a wet brush, to simulate the marks made on the first drawing.
The process of reconstruction
Hopeless in its efforts
Trying to hold onto the forms
That were there before
But have collapsed
Evidence of the solid
And the disintegrated
Fragments of a Triassic Cliff
Crumbling geology
Fragile world
Carolyn Black 