Monuments with a tail

Authors’ Comment

MONUMENTS WITH A TAIL
jellyfish with spines and smooth hedgehogs

Pen. A metal sphere that spins and puts ink on paper. A drawing on the edge between a spontaneous gesture and an elaborate exercise of imagination. A perfect stainless steel sphere that traces imperfect, overlapping marks—piled up to the brink of muddiness. Threads over needles, over skeins, over tangled forms that retain their autonomy. Lines branching and intersecting without establishing rhythms or repetitions, until they begin to suggest shadows. Volume drawn from spines among which threads get caught, where lint settles and aggregates into little clumps. A clump on paper with the vocation of a sketch for a later imaginary assemblage. Neither figurative nor abstract, neither presence nor representation.
A hedgehog of marks and traces, with depth of plane and directional changes from the pen.
Assemblages and objects without spines. Continuous surfaces. Folds and growths without roughness. Non-abrasive branching. Volumes without needles. Smooth or polished. Nothing entangled. No series of tangles, no skeins.
Thorns worn down to disappearance in the transition from paper to volume. Transfer characters without spines.
Smooth hedgehogs.