DIC TAT

Exhibition, Draiocht, Centre for the Arts, Dublin (2014)

DIC TAT comprises a synchronized two channel video and a suite of drawings, The work explores variations of mark making while drawing to the pulse of a metronome. The metronome ‘dictates’ the pace, beating out precise measures for the drawing hand to follow. In music a metronome’s function is to regularize the player’s timing, but here the objective is the opposite. Split seconds between beats allow for choice, choices which result in variation; a line can be longer, shorter, curved or straight, it can change direction or require the pressure on the drawing hand to vary. Although the hand endeavours to observe the strictly measured beat, the mind retains a freedom and the resulting marks are notably varied, expressive and irregular.