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Chapter 14: "Untitled"
Chapter 14: "Untitled"
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2 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
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This chapter describes Untitled by Kim Moodie, created in 1997, and measuring 125 by 117 cm. There is a tactile version of one part of this drawing. It is labeled “1.” This chapter is 2 minutes long.
This large drawing is composed of 20 8 ½ by 11 sheets of white paper, pulled roughly from a spiral notebook, and arranged in a grid, four down and five across. Using only a thick black felt tip pen, the artist has created something similar to a page from a comic book, with 20 cells, or scenes. Crudely drawn characters appear across these scenes, pulled from pop culture and history: witches, spiders, Godzilla, Frankenstein’s monster. In the top left corner, a mummy wrapped in bandages lifts a giant bird by their outstretched wings, or maybe tries to keep it from flying away. Fights unfold across the pages: a soldier wields a gun in one scene and throws a grenade in another. Walls, towers and obelisks populate the background, as does a set of empty chairs which keep reappearing. The chaos is emphasized by the density of how the artist has drawn everything, there is no empty spot left on the page. A NASA shuttle flies above a falling Godzilla in a starry night, about to crash land on a witch. A spider hunts a fly in his web, woven above a two-faced horse-riding cowboy who points a gun both ahead and behind him. Who wins, who loses? Despite the serial quality of the drawing, there is no satisfactory ending when we reach the bottom left cell of the artwork.
To hear more about this work, play the next track. Or move to the next stop. Make a 180 degree turn and move down the path 2 metres and then turn right. The next stop is another 2 metres ahead. The drawing is slightly to your left.
This large drawing is composed of 20 8 ½ by 11 sheets of white paper, pulled roughly from a spiral notebook, and arranged in a grid, four down and five across. Using only a thick black felt tip pen, the artist has created something similar to a page from a comic book, with 20 cells, or scenes. Crudely drawn characters appear across these scenes, pulled from pop culture and history: witches, spiders, Godzilla, Frankenstein’s monster. In the top left corner, a mummy wrapped in bandages lifts a giant bird by their outstretched wings, or maybe tries to keep it from flying away. Fights unfold across the pages: a soldier wields a gun in one scene and throws a grenade in another. Walls, towers and obelisks populate the background, as does a set of empty chairs which keep reappearing. The chaos is emphasized by the density of how the artist has drawn everything, there is no empty spot left on the page. A NASA shuttle flies above a falling Godzilla in a starry night, about to crash land on a witch. A spider hunts a fly in his web, woven above a two-faced horse-riding cowboy who points a gun both ahead and behind him. Who wins, who loses? Despite the serial quality of the drawing, there is no satisfactory ending when we reach the bottom left cell of the artwork.
To hear more about this work, play the next track. Or move to the next stop. Make a 180 degree turn and move down the path 2 metres and then turn right. The next stop is another 2 metres ahead. The drawing is slightly to your left.
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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Chapter 12: "Ex Voto / Lung": This chapter describes Ex Voto / Lung by Shelagh Keeley, created in 1990, and measuring 145 by 95 cm. It is one and a half minutes long. You can reach out to feel the edges of this frame. This drawing is much larger than the majority of those in the exhibition! And there is one word to describe this set of lungs: messiness. Though the outline is drawn in graphite, or pencil, the edges of the oblong biological vessel are smudged, and there are dense layers of thick black charcoal that create the shadows or roundness of the lungs. A section of orange and pink pigment mixed together in the centre of the left lung creates the impression of a glowing, pulsating shape underneath, a sense heightened by the cloudy and translucent quality of the paper. The artist has also smeared a transparent wax over the drawing, and it creates a tactility to it, as we imagine the artist using her hands to pull the wax down and across the surface. The lungs almost reach all four by CUAG Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History