Le Pas Suspendu
Talking about a drawing by Goya the writer John Berger says that the distance between different parts of the drawing should not be measured in centimeters but in seconds. The time it takes the artist’s eye to move on, and his hand to follow, leaving its mark. Like that the drawing spreads out in time, not just on the paper, and the sensation for us as spectators shifts ever so …
Talking about a drawing by Goya the writer John Berger says that the distance between different parts of the drawing should not be measured in centimeters but in seconds. The time it takes the artist’s eye to move on, and his hand to follow, leaving its mark. Like that the drawing spreads out in time, not just on the paper, and the sensation for us as spectators shifts ever so slightly from a static image to a dynamic one, with a pulse of its own. People ask me about the distortion in my paintings, the big hands and feet, the elongated limbs.Seen in the light of Berger’s …
