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A fragment of time

This work is a durational drawing made over a series of days on the West Coast of South Africa and prepared for a specific site where it had to fit within size constraints. Presented as a scroll, only a portion is visible at any one time. The rest remains rolled, held just beyond view. The drawing holds marks shaped by wind, sand, rocks, movement, and the act of carrying. I look back on the process and also think it represents ‘sites’ I visited daily – sometimes it was the same ‘site’, but wind, sea currents and debris changed the markings onto which I placed my paper to make the drawings. The work is also about documenting my artistic or creative practice.

As a work, a fragment of time resists full visibility. What is seen is only a portion; It doesn’t try to hold the whole; It accepts that what we encounter is always partial. I’m interested in how memory and experience don’t arrive as complete images, but in fragments—revealed, obscured, and reconfigured through movement.

I walked the line where land gives way

and the edge continuously shifts before I can name it

 

A scroll was dragged along sand and rocks

where salt, grit and pressure allow marks

Now a reminder of contact as the paper holds a different time of

steps, drag, rub, steps, drag, rub

 

What is below rises as a trace

The paper holds a different time

compressed

folded into the rolled scroll.

 

What is seen has already passed

I  invite you to walk again

not to arrive

but to remain alongside

 

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