Indigo and Bleach Drawings II

One of my first explorations into an expanded form of drawing was using indigo dye and bleach on paper. The whole thing petered out as I lost confidence, as I wrote about here. I have made another batch of A3, slightly larger, drawings in a similar vein, gestural and made with marks but less explicitly hand drawn, more ambiguous and less about a formal, stylised approach to drawing. These drawings seem to speak to squiggly things, creepy crawlies, under the Earth things, blotchy things, amorphous and lumpy things. I like that they feel like indigo, ruination and under the Earth all at once. I cannot for the life of me resolve the inconsistency of bleach, other than it being the absolute antithesis of the compost - harsh, chemical, unhelpful. Yet so beautiful in the marks it makes.

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