Margins of Philosophy

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Margins of Philosophy. This series of work was created by taking the pencil marks that people had made in the margins of library books and enlarging them to create large gestural images. The original printed words of the book were removed so that the pencil marks reference a text that is no longer visible, although in some works is physically suggested by wobbly underlining. Each work is titled with the name of the book from which the marks were taken.

Margins of Philosophy: 'The New York School'
powdered graphite on unprimed canvas
100x150cm, 1998

Margins of Philosophy: 'Expressionism'
powdered graphite on unprimed canvas
88x98cm, 1998

Margins of Philosophy: 'Image Music Text '
powdered graphite on unprimed canvas
80x100cm, 1998

Margins of Philosophy: 'Untimely Meditations'
powdered graphite on unprimed canvas
150x100cm, 1998

Margins of Philosophy: 'Expressionism'
powdered graphite on unprimed canvas
100x110cm, 1998

"...a text is made up of multiple writings, drawn from many cultures...but there is one place where this multiplicity is focused and that place is the reader, not, as was hitherto said, the author..." from The Death of the Author, by Roland Barthes, 1968.