'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 lino piece where I reflect on my grandfather’s time in the Rhodesian War. The print can be considered a type of record keeping of the daily rations my grandfather’s patrol group consumed over the 46-day period.
Lino in of itself is a stamp. The significance of stamps are the traces left behind of relationships between people, bridging the gap between borders of countries and spanning oceans. The stamps become a trace of my grandfather, who collected them, and highlight his own tradition of collection and documentation.
Through this piece I want to capture the traces of war left behind on my grandfather and to honour him, and what was a difficult time for himself and his patrol group when they ran out of rations and had to eat the same meal for 8 days. I want to juxtapose these periods of monotony with his moments of interest by contrasting traditional techniques and simple line work against unconventional techniques, intricate marks and scenes.
The treatment of the stamps different to those of the MREs brings forward the more interesting aspects of the patrol. The treatment of the drawing and cutting in of the stamps is a reactionary response to my grandfather’s stamp book, implementing the meticulous nature of certain pages and the messy, disorganised nature of others."
