Side 1, Gare du Nord, Paris, 2024.
Acrylic and ink on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Acrylic and ink on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Acrylic and ink on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Graphite on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Graphite on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Graphite on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Graphite on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Melinda Hunt: Walking and Drawing While Traveling
Drawing is an
economical process well suited to transferring one reality into another, the
transference is immediate. Drawing while walking complicates my capacity to
focus on the fast-moving surroundings, prioritizing what is heard and felt
above what is seen. The ‘atmosphere’ generated by a site is perceived and
transferred to the paper in the way a seismograph records movements in the
earth’s crust. I am a human seismograph, a proprioceptive recording device
moving in space. The marks I make are unmediated and unexpected, a direct
reflection of my sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.
In the case
of this double-sided travel drawing, side 1 was made while walking and waiting
in a crowded train station in pre-Olympic Paris, side 2 while looking at
stranger objects in the British Museum.
Side 1, Gare
du Nord, Paris, 2024.
Acrylic and ink on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
Side 2, British Museum, 2024.
Graphite on paper. 15 x 42 cm.
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