Robin price

Making the Mark was and still is an ongoing experiment of understanding time as a forward moving phenomenon and how the mind processes the idea of time. I experimented with time-lines, literally lines that been created within time.

         Time

                 “The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future

                  regarded as a whole.”

Time can only exist if we populate or document it. Without humans time generally doesn’t exist because there is no documentation about the events that have happened or going to happen. With the set of works I have used a box of watercolour pencils to document this idea of time. It’s a language of how time is for me. I have gone on to represent time not as singular but as events and groupings of time. The more people documenting time means there is more of it?

This experimentation also represents making the mark. What does it mean to make a mark, draw, scratch, wipe, throw; these are ways in which to make a mark.

         “He lets his mind go blank and his hand go where it wanted, not deliberate, not random, somewhere

          in between. They called it automatic art. What if Pollock reversed the challenge? What if instead of

          making art without thinking, I can’t paint anything unless I know exactly why I’m painting it. He would

          never make a single mark. The challenge is not to act automatically; it is to find an action that is not

          automatic from painting to talking to breathing to fucking, to falling in love”

                                                                                                                                                                    Ex Machina