The Blei heads are multi-layered drawings that bring together different levels of drawing and time. I applied a thin layer of white paint to randomly printed drawings of mine, so-called misprints, which were produced during the production of one of my books, and drew faces on them, the physiognomy of which partly followed the traces shimmering through them, but also differed from them again. After lying around for a while, I covered these drawings with a soft pencil in order to create new heads in the interplay of exposure and compression, in which the mistakes, aberrations and deposits of the previous drawing processes are inscribed. The residue and leftovers, which now only shimmer through the outer skin as a hunch, are the memory of the drawing and shape the expression of the faces that light up from their dark surroundings: memories that have taken shape, there and not there, impenetrable and permeable at the same time.

28pages

20×14cm

Softcover

English

2022

ISBN -