"I am lying"

 

 

Strategy for set backs

Using a self imposed system to create drawings that don't quite work as drawings. The process is designed to abstract the subject matter to a point of vague recognition; an obstructed familiarity.

Ironically, Blogger is not letting me upload an picture of one of these drawings, so here is the formula instead:

I = P ( O ( Lh7 ) + S

I = Image
P = Print
O = Original
Lh = Left hand
S = Scan

Oh wait, here you go...

CERN Time Line #1

 

Anon

This week on BBC Radio 4 was a programme about anonymity and writing in its various forms: Belle de Jour's History of Anon, presented by Brooke Magnanti. It was very good.

In declaring ones self anonymous it states "this writing is honest and may be a bit salacious but I can do that because you don't know who I am" ... I can't help thinking that the writing must also be very well executed so as not to undermine the content.

My name is Helen Frank. There you go!

Life: mise en abyme

               

An Instagram mise en abyme - the play between the thing within and the containing thing itself.
The mise en abyme is the infinite reflection between two mirrors, but similarly self consciously is the mise en scene...
 

    

Arnaud Desjardin's A Book on Books on Artists' Books is a catalogue of artists' books whilst being an artist's book (so should it be in A Book on Books on Artists' Books?). Or The Pitch/The Ticket episode of Seinfeld (a sitcom "about nothing") where George and Jerry pitch the idea of a sitcom "about nothing". I've heard that Inception, the Christopher Nolan film is another example but I couldn't watch more than the first ten minutes - sorry.

So anyway, back to infinity and self consciousness

How many reflective to and fro's of the mise en abyme does it take for it to bcome uncanny?

If I were to put a link to my Instagram accout here, you could go look at that page and then follow nother link back to here.