Observations
Jan-May 2008

I use an mdf-board, as big as possible. To make it steadier I apply strips of wood on the back of it. It is too big for me to be able to move it on my own.

Then charcoal. A lot of stripes, in the end I have used approximately five boxes of charcoal. I would suppose that most of the charcoal leaves the drawing and spreads out in a thin layer all over me and my studio.

I usually listen to radio when I am drawing. I am wondering if the drawing would look different if I changed the channel, and the rhythms. I try but there seems to be no essential difference.

I realize that my ambition to stay on the mdf-board does not work. The drawing is expanding into the room, outside of the mdf as well. Seams and tracks after nails in the wall become visible.

Before noon, if the sun is shining through the window it will create shapes on the drawing. The sun reflects in the charcoal and dazzles me. It is as if the spring-season makes the subject matter to be more about light than about darkness.

I like that the drawing can alter without me being present.

Text from the exhibiton catalogue, The Loose Knowledge Movement