five lines (i’m no closer to it now than i was before) 2022

Five silkscreen prints on Stonehenge paper

Each 57 x 38cm

Disrupting the conventions of meaning, this work explores the minute details of visual perception and challenges the search for pattern and meaning. The series of prints features the progression of a single line, using the silk-screen process to explore the tensions of the hand drawn, autographic mark and screen printing’s seriality. Abstracting the material form of language, the alphabet, has led to this minimalist exploration of seeing, reading, and pattern, using the methodology of screen-printing to interrogate the tension between meaning and medium.

The printing process used a single hand drawn line repeated in increasing quantities across five separate prints. The installation of the works as a sequence plays to our automatic inclination to read left to right, from which questions may be raised. This final point at which the series stops however leads the viewer to a cliff; what have we arrived at? What is the point? The work uses arbitrary organisation of line to allude to no such concrete idea. In constructing illogical compositions that all point to story and purpose, yet denying the viewer a solid answer, this series toys with the innate human need to find and understand pattern.