The Vanishing

Years back when I was working as one half of the collaborative duo, Dutton and Peacock, we did a show at Site Gallery, Sheffield called ‘On Vanishing’. One element of that exhibition was a large lightbox showing a still from George Sluizer’s brilliant 1988 film ‘The Vanishing’ (not the later American version). Without giving too much away, true to perverse form, the scene we used was one of almost total darkness, and in which the English subtitle for the spoken Dutch script was the only light (nearly) on screen. I was really drawn towards the idea of the written text being the only illumination in the darkness and I still am at all kinds of levels. I’ve been doing quite a lot of language based work since then, and a lot of drawing lately, so I decided to revisit that image as a drawing.