Lab Record 29/07/17
Aleatoric composition: The form is an arrangement of material conditions dictated by paper and clue.
Spic and Span is an aleatoric composition of modular drawings challenging the border between the medium of drawing and the technique of printmaking. It is an attempt to apply the paradigm of printmaking for the process of drawing. The technical difference between media, drawing, and printing has analogies in opposite ideas such as freedom and regulation, possibility, and reality. While the medium of drawing allows a maximum of space and absolute intelligibility and creative power over form and content—with just one line, one can draw an entire universe—prints are always bound to original objects. The material’s condition and the constraints of physics and chemistry are essential for a print’s shape, while it is a secondary factor for a graphical figure. In the Spic & Span variations, the material condition is no longer just a marginal aspect; it instead becomes a fundamental condition for the entire drawing (process & result). The texture of the folded paper predicts the graphical flow and the linear continuity from canvas to canvas. This ongoing process from month to the season from seasons to year reduces the author’s possible decision to decide where to draw and where not. The only two free choices in the entire process of the whole composition of the annual plan of Spic & Span is the decision where to start and when to end the creation.
On the conceptual layer, Spic & Span alludes to ordinary routines that seem to organize our lives without a typical start or end, and also often without a real cause or comprehensible purpose.
