'Gordon' VE 1/3 (2023)
detail, 'Gordon'
detail, 'Gordon'
'Gordon' VE 2/3 (2023)
detail, 'Gordon'
detail, 'Gordon'
'Gordon' VE 3/3 (2023)
detail, 'Gordon'
detail, 'Gordon'
Gordon
Lino print on Fabriano
700 x 1000mm
2023
"Gordon is a linocut work that reflects on my grandfather’s time in the Rhodesian War. It serves as a quiet act of record-keeping, charting the daily rations consumed by his patrol group over a span of 46 days.
Linocut, with its stamping process, carries its own quiet symbolism—stamps connect people, mark time, cross borders, and leave behind traces. My grandfather, a stamp collector, left behind an archive of memory, of order amidst uncertainty. This piece extends that impulse, folding personal history into a broader, more fragile form of documentation.
The work moves between repetition and rupture—periods of monotony, like the eight days his group survived on a single meal, are laid bare beside moments of unexpected variation. The linework reflects this rhythm: simple, looping gestures echo the grind of sameness, while jagged, more unruly marks capture moments of tension. Each carved stamp bears its own mood—some careful, others chaotic—mirroring the state of his collection: neatly filed in places, crumbling at the edges in others.
This is a tribute to a man I knew and a version of him I didn’t. A meditation on memory, survival, and the quiet weight of things left behind."
