The Watched Cannot See the Watcher

I am totally in love with these drawings by Liverpool based artist James Quin. 'The Watched Cannot see the Watcher' is a preliminary drawing for a series of 300 drawings on found book backs entitled 'Repetition'. Each drawing is made from memory based on the previous drawing, the process repeated 300 times over a nine month period. The process seeks through the act of repetition to uncover 'the multiple readings' of the image and to make visible the subjectivity of memory and the marking of time. The variations/flaws of the image, act as tiny glitches in the attempt to remember.

"In the act of drawing there is a kind of necessary amnesia. One looks at the subject, studies it intently for a few moments, remembers a particular set of relationships for a split second, and transfers that memory of seeing, remembering, forgetting. Repeat. See. Remember. Forget. Erase. See. Remember. Forget. Erase. Alter. Repeat." - Christine Arnold, Walking Dreaming Thinking, A Book of Reflections, 2010.

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