Alexandra Blum, ‘Arrival’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020
Using a combination of drawing speeds to make movement, and therefore the passage of time, visible is key to my drawing process.
When making this image, I wanted to draw the world ‘in progress’. I wanted each drawn mark to be characteristic of the particular movement it corresponded to, whether that was a gull wheeling, aggregate as it poured off the slowly chuntering conveyor belt, or the jetsam and water birds which were arriving with the rising tide
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Alexandra Blum, detail from ‘Arrival’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020
Alexandra Blum, detail from ‘Arrival’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020
Alexandra Blum, detail from ‘View Point’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020
Alexandra Blum, detail from ‘View Point’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020
Alexandra Blum, detail from ‘View Point’, graphite on paper, 42 x 59.4 cm, 2020