THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS

The admonition as related to my work, not to be too descriptive can be, I feel, construed to be rather negative.
After all, the whole purpose of visual art is communication… illustrating and illuminating the text. I am wary of technical prestidigitation and sleight-of-hand visual trickery employed in order to seduce, or entertain without having recourse to a deeper and more significant engagement with intention.

Some observations that have occurred to me after the Drawing symposium:
The Digital Media can be used as a means of disseminating information and is therefore descriptive, illustrative, and narrative. However, it does require engagement and a certain amount of investment on the part of the viewer.
One might wonder if the ‘work’ entirely self-referential or is it ‘sharing’. Does it repay the investment made by the viewer? In what way does it relate to the viewer’s concerns?

With regard to introducing music to ‘fill out’ my visual presentation… I consider that some J.S.Bach pieces for the solo violin would be suitable.
There are a number of points that relate to the visual work.
The single strand of music is a metaphor for the single strand of yarn as it constructs the substrate. The sound is mellifluous and aurally replicates the folding, twisting and turning of the yarn. It is a single stringed instrument, but the sound it produces builds up until it culminates into a whole composition.
J.S. Bach was concerned with the construction of his music and reflected an interest in mathematics, just as the knitted samples refer back to grids and formulae.
For all these reasons, I think the music I propose to use is relevant.
I was considering using rhythmic drumming loops to emulate the noise and cacophony of the knitting machine, but I rejected this concept as being too descriptive and particular. After all, it is the fabric that I am interested in, and not just the means of production.