3 July: Boxes and tanks talk

3/7/2022

In my childhood my Dad (leading draughtsman and architect) would encourage me to deconstruct boxes, carefully folding them out to see their flattened shapes. It is a practice I have continued ever since with undying fascination, so I was particularly interested in this collage/drawing by Eva Hesse which reminded me of those shapes.

Below are two paintings on paper of cisterns by my partner Bernard. He has them hanging in his work shed, and when I was there the other day after seeing Eva Hesse's drawing I was struck by the nice relationship they all have and how they talk to one another.

I came across Eva Hesse's drawing online: Forms Larger and Bolder, an exhibition of a selection of her early drawings held at Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, Ohio) last month.

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Dissolving People

A symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing, photographed at intervals of several months.
(My shoes look so new in the first pic!)