Today I drew spirals into large Perspex disks, and scanned one, with some older smaller pieces.
I like how the scanned image of the large disk alters the drawings which are engraved on each side. The drawings seem more three dimensional, and the object itself more solid. The lid of the scanner stops you seeing through.
Now to animate a spiral I drew with pencil on paper, moving over the Salisbury Plains: a of seismograph of a car trip earlier this year. I have been thinking for a while of linking this spiral with the animation, Oiltrack.
I had seen a spiral carved into rock in an ancient stone circle near Stonehenge. I did the drawing as a kind of joke, as some graphic evidence of being there. But once I got going, I keep doing them – on buses, trains and aeroplanes. So I’ll work with these spirals for a bit longer and see where they lead.