Working drawings for Boundary (A line in art)
1993
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of an anonymous donor through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2011
- Gallery location
- Not on display
Artwork Details
inscribed in pencil u.l.-c.l.: all of a sudden soudain, tout à cach / this thing, that thing, fuck.
inscribed in pencil u.l.-c.l.: (various numbers) ‘SPECIAL INTEREST’ (various numbers)
inscribed in pencil c.l.: dont let this / go there is / something here I I / not a colum
inscribed in pencil c.l.: let it go
inscribed in pencil u.c.-u.r.: what part of me do I expect the new to come from / my mind ? only my mind ? / what is new ? what can be new / answer ! = the doing / newness in the becoming of (the new) / (the) becoming = (the) doing newness / the will to do something (anything) / productive being (special) (not so special) / personal experience ? / personal expression ? / BE COMING / paint this ok (downward arrow) now! scale ? / Being a lady ‘BODY’
inscribed in pencil (in image) c.r.: BIG / BODY [arrow downward] / BODY (arrow upward)
inscribed in pencil (in image) c.r.: BIG / BODY (arrow downward) / BODY / BODY (arrow upward)
inscribed in pencil c.r.: LAIR / LIAR / LINE
inscribed in pencil l.c.: a folding line / ‘Everything in form, and life itself is form.’ BALZAC / form is inseparable from movement. / form is alive / life is movement. / folding. / space.
(2) inscribed in pencil l.r.: B.H 93
inscribed in pencil u.l.: what do I want to say about anything / meaningless paintings
inscribed in pencil c.l.: got the picture / (DELEUZE) / getting the pitcutre / (GAUTTARI)
inscribed in pencil c.l.: To my inability to locate.a / meaning significant enough / to declare an image system / for myself due to what ?
inscribed in pencil l.l.-l.c.: Express what. / What point in my own experience / would I want to express. Nothing / about myself impresses me. So / should I illustrate some social / text that concerns me. Sexual difference ? / Gee that would be novel !.. / How do I define experience. What experience / psychology – ontology – spiritual. philosophic (psychology ontology philosophic underlined) / To start describing to myself the experience / of being alive. of perception, of articulation / I hate the idea of painting as another language. / The privelege of questioning.
inscribed in pencil u.r.: why do I still do / this
inscribed in pencil c.: experience on the plane / of the fold / black holes- / Gilles Deleuze… / -white walls.
inscribed in pencil l.r.: what does this mean? / 7.4 / white stocking painting
inscribed in pencil l.r.: what does this mean / it works / but what / does it do
inscribed in pencil l.r.: why do / I feel less / convinced / by this illeg. / than the / double ballle / when this / is more / my own / image
(3) inscribed in pencil l.r.: B.H 93
inscribed in pencil u.l.-u.c.: (various numbers) DIRTY WORDS ESSENTIALIST / ESSENTIALISM / ESSENTIALISTIC / ESSENTIALLY / CREATIVE GENIUS / DEFEAT / HALF WAY
inscribed in pencil l.r.: BAD DAY
inscribed in pencil u.c.-u.r.: Im almost insisting with my self / that they add up. To what ? Why do they / have to add up to anything ? Whats anything / Surely they intend a meaning. / To keep a false conclusion at bay. nonconclusive. / map experience – expression / map space. beings’ expression / Think ! expression of being / one thing / Movement – body movement every thing / curve. / picture space – body space – free space. / fuck space / face it.
inscribed in pencil c.-c.r.: UNTITLED / (SO… IF THIS IS LIFE, AND IM HALF WAY THROUGH IT… ?) / PAINTING.
inscribed in pencil c.: BAD / BADDER / BADDEST / FORMED / FORMING / (BAD) / FORMS / MOVING / (BETTER) / BEST
inscribed in pencil l.r.: BRAIN DEAD. / BAD DAY / NO CONCERTRATION / NO SUBJECT / EVERY SUBJECT / EVERY THING / EVERY THING / KELLYS’ REALISM / KELLYS’ ANT. REALISM / KELLYS MUM. / KELLYS BUM
Gift of an anonymous donor through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2011