Border: Washout

The charm and innocence of a washing line is belied by the fact that sheets, blankets and tarpaulins were/are hung across streets in urban war zones to protect from snipers. ‘Borders’ is a series of 21 drawings in pencil on collaged and gessoed handmade paper. Each half of the paper is a different rough texture creating slight differences in the rendering of the subject matter and irregular edges to the pieces. The imagery is sourced from newspapers, libraries and a lifetime of artist’s sketchbooks. They relate to the ‘Margin’ and ‘Manuscript’ series.