TEMPORAL FIELD DRAWING FOR THE YARDS
the yards: project OVERVIEW
Beginning the first week of May 2020 I will begin work on my largest public, durational drawing in partnership with THE YARDS, a luxury residential apartment development in the Kansas City Stockyards District.
My durational drawing practice dissolves the distinction between process and product, rendering these two notions indivisible from one another by embracing time as both material and site. For this drawing, that will take place at 1660 Genessee Street in downtown Kansas City, the process is equal parts obsessive and meditative. A series of gestures, recorded as black marks on the raw concrete surface will be repeated over a series of days, aggregating 40 hours and coalescing into a field-like flow. Drawing publicly like this is a humble kind of performative act. Perched in a boom lift marking the surface of this wall in the Stockyards district over 40 hour duration connects the work to a public perceptual field where the drawing, audience, and maker occupy the same present. In a public piece like this, I become a part of the work, drawing becomes an act of construction – my presence, labor, time, mark-making tactile-kinesthetic body movement and the topological images they yield all exist simultaneously. At the outset of this drawing each mark will embody only the moments of its making as a record of both attention and intention as the marks grow in number they become something more echoing the way blades of grass at a distance become a field.
DAY 01
Today, I was only able to get in a little bit of work before the storm rolled in.
Each day this page will be updated daily with videos, images and live-stream links documenting the evolution of this project over time.
DAY 02
The sun was shining and the wind was whipping through the Stockyards District today as I drew. I was thankful for my skilled lift driver for keeping us tucked in close to the wall and as stable as possible all day. When my feet were finally back on the ground the sensation in my body felt exactly like being back on dry ground after spending a day on the sea. Things are starting to come together a bit. The lines are starting to have the illusion of lifting off the surface or float when viewed from the ground.
