in triplicate } the creation of unoriginal artwork #13 with remnants of #12 which i haven’t posted because it’s shit
the original and number 12 on the left. the reason i mention number 12 will be evident when you look at the triplicate, black and white version of this drawing
this is the first time i use my new blue carbon paper. i’m so in love with the color, very pleasantly happy!
and here we see the traces of number 12 coming through. i should keep my accidental effects just that: accidental. i’m always thinking that i’ve discovered a new technique and that i can take advantage of this serendipitous event. but once i gain control, the exercise becomes futile. it must remain unlooked-for
Comedic and haunting. And, actually, painfully disturbing when studied in detail.
If you think about it, it is the triplicate which is visited by ghosts long gone. The relinquishment of control along with the surprise at the end, although lacking the sense of terror associated with witnessing a phantasm, resemble a haunting, whether welcome or not.
But, which is the ghost? Indeed, are we the ghosts?
We certainly will be one day, just not right now; I’m way too solid.
I can see three drawings. To me, it’s not number 12 that insists itself but some other.
Sweet phrase and thought, “the unlooked-for”.