The handwritten word is psychometric; it functions like an oscilloscope to map the rhythms of the body, both corporeal and emotional.


The drawings in the exhibition
        Oscilloscope
meditate on the physicality of the handwritten word.

The imagery is abstracted from such measuring devices as oscilloscopes.  An oscilloscope produces a line that maps sound.  While my drawings are silent they map the experiential soundscapes of the human body: rhythms like heartbeat and breath.  To me these rhythms are alive and manifest in the handwritten word.

The production of the drawings is igneous (related to, produced by, fire).  I use burning and smoke-blackening as a means of marking over intaglio printed text.  Both text and the flame's mark are  traces; a way of capturing the past or of containing what once was.













Macushla Robinson, February 2008 Sydney