The Specious Line: Drawing as a method for re-presenting the specious present

Graham, Joe (2014) The Specious Line: Drawing as a method for re-presenting the specious present. In: Crossing the Line 2: Drawing in the Middle East, 12th - 14th September 2014, The American University in Dubai. (Unpublished)

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This paper functions as a report on practice, describing the layout and the outcome of a recent first-person investigation through drawing. In simple terms, this investigation was set up with the aim of exploring the potential for the drawn line to re-present my experience of the present moment in time as it 'passed'. As an artist who draws, my working hypothesis is that drawing re-presents time in a very different way from other forms of expression, such as writing. My research seeks to test this idea across a range of practical experiments that employ drawing as a tool for the describing the experience of time.

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