Forgotten Tones
Updated and Page Published – 29.05.2014
Forgotten Tones: ‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ – Derrida
Tones initially seem invisible in colour, but if we photocopied any image we saw in black and white there would be a scale of grey tones. There are shades of colour, and this is what gives images form. I find it amazing as babies we see first in tones then in colour. Here I am exploring this notion of forgotten tone. I am very interested in the idea that there is a gap in our vision and revealing that in painting through revealing hidden processes. Fixed and displaced tones are some of these processes. I could not imagine everything someone has seen or experienced in their life. I like to explore how this displacement in how we attach memories to vision exists in the way the works also reveal themselves to us.
Image 1: Forgotten Tones, Lithograph and Paint. 2012 NFS
Image 2 -4(are a triptych): Conference for the Blind, Oil on paper, 2007. Sold
Image 3: Forgotten Tones, Lithograph and Paint. 2012 NFS
Image 4: Blindman’s Bluff, Oil on Postcard, 2007. Sold
Image 5: Dancing with the Past, Lithograph Print. 2010. Edition of 60.
Image 6: Rewriting Tones: ‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ – Derrida, Charcoal on paper 2010
Image 7: Missing Tones: ‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ – Derrida, Charcoal on paper 2010.
Image 8(Image 8-11 same Palimspsest series): Blind Audience: Palimpsest Tones, Charcoal – 2011
Image 9: Blind Audience: Palimpsest Tones, Charcoal on paper – 2011,
Image 10: Palimpsest Tones: Dancing with the past, Blindman’s bluff, Charcoal on paper – 2011
Image 11: Palimpsest Tones: Dancing with the past, Blindman’s bluff, Charcoal on paper – 2011
Image 12: Forgotten Tones: Dancing with the past, Blindman’s bluff, Charcoal on paper – 2011
‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ – Derrida
I wish to acknowledge the following sources:
Some important sources for the works were images of the audience at a Conference of the Blind in Washington, Futurism, Blind Man’s Buff painted by Auguste Joseph Trupheme (1836-1898), Paula Rego, Glenn Brown, Marcel Proust and of Van gogh.
The artist wishes to acknowledge as a source for this artwork the image Members_washington_seminar_crowd.jpg. This source has been used with the permission of the National Federation of the Blind (HYPERLINK “http://www.nfb.org/”www.nfb.org).
‘Artistic Debt that Can’t Be Repaid’ Quote from – Memoirs of the Blind -Derrida