Ink drawing, DVD video loop and stereo audio CD loop. 1.5mx1.125m. 2009
Made using a semi procedural drawing system loosely based on cracking patterns on granite in the mountainsides around the Gandsfjord in Norway. The video is taken from thousands of stills of the drawing. Installed the video is projected onto the drawing, which has the aspect ratio of a 4:3 video image.
Once I realised that the cracks in rocks are a process and not a feature they become very simple. You move the ink down the page carving the gaps much as the melting snow has in into the rock.
Drawing always seems to be a feedback loop of defining things then un-defining them, deciding what is real and what isn’t. I wanted this to affect the viewer, to make an unstable reality that undoes the definite marks of the ink.
The audio is derived from noise filtered at multiples of the framerate.
Created during a residency in Sandnes and first shown in the neighbouring gallery/cinema KINOKINO.