Displacement

media: charcoal, graphite, pigment, ink, paper, single-channel audio

dimensions: 5 × 5 inches; 12.7 × 12.7cm

year: 2013

documentation: Justin Luke (2014)

This work consists of three hand-drawn pen and ink tracings of stones on a rubbed dry pigment, graphite, and charcoal field. The field creates a depth that pushes the stone tracings forward. The pieces derive from my memory of walking up and down the .5-mile dirt driveway every day in the small upstate New York town where I grew up. The stones in the road were submerged (like icebergs) half way or more in the dirt, their outlines serving as way posts in the monotony of the walk. The stones traced here (two stones, each drawn from multiple displacements) are taken from the driveway and have lived in my studio for years. The two physical stones then trace one another on an accompanying sound recording placed on the floor opposite the drawings at a low position akin to the driveway where they were found. Seth Cluett (2013).