Sculptor Michael Legrand describes occasional deviations from his central practice as ‘aberrations’. I’m not sure if he still entertains such urges.
My practice sometimes seems governed by ‘aberrative’ inclinations.
When one finds oneself compelled to do something and the intellect has no power to overpower or contextualise that urge to desist, you do it.
My blackboard works counter my usual art practice by being ephemeral. They occupy outside an art context. They are realised without my usual appetite for weight and scale and the pleasure of physical effort.
My blackboard works are ‘slight’. They are also conspicuously unnoticed. They seem to tire quite quickly, needing to be renewed every month or so.
Having said that, I am motivated to keep doing them. I rejoice in doing them. Their futility and commodity independence liberates them and me. That they are erased and to find only a modest afterlife in the blog, seems adequate and fair.
YAY and Still Alive is the first ‘blackboard’ that uses both panels, to make a dialogue across the dividing door to the other panel.
Many thanks to Courtney at Ciao Thyme, Darling Street, Balmain, for providing this platform.
