Molly’s sucking stones
The image is drawn on watercolour paper in rapidograph ink and measures 110 cm x 80 cm approx. framed landscape. £ 650.00
The drawing is composed of four stones drawn objectively. As the stone is repeated across the picture plain, a rhythm begins to emerge, positive and negative shapes juxtapose one another and become of equal importance The title is taken from Beckett’s trilogy, Molly and alludes to Molly passing a sucking stone from one pocket to the next whilst chanting in much the same way as a rosary or islamic prayer.The drawing is also concerned with the passing of time and how we observe and comprehend things at different times:is the first observation the best or the fifty first? Is the larger more detailed drawing truer to the object or the drawing done life size but lacking detail? what effect does mood, tiredness, compositional constraints have on the picture?
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