Not Writing, Drawing

About

The work by Susan Timmins at Crescent Artspace, bears the deceptively prosaic generic title 'Not Writing, Drawing'; indicating (at least on the surface) a parallel between processes of writing and drawing and hinting at their innate similarities and differences. Both activities consist of mark-making; in this case the result of preordained process, but subject to the inevitable unpredictability of (actual) physical execution.

Certain factors may be predetermined - for example, the employment of grid or text as a premise for individual pieces or groups of work; orange fluorescent marker pen or paint on paper as the materials of choice. The physical execution then takes over, which in itself may involve highly structured or repetitive actions which follow the 'rules' of grid or text.