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Brian Fay | Ireland
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Ábhar agus Meon, Sixth World Archaeological Congress, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Designed by iArchitectures (2008).
My work is concerned with using different drawing technologies to record and mark time and history. It is an attempt to visualize the action of time on things popularly presumed to be preserved in a state of something approaching permanence.
The drawings for this exhibition are meticulous hand tracings of the intricate cracked surfaces of the 1927 cement pillars denoting the post holes at the Woodhenge monument (Salisbury, England) and the cracked and damaged surface of an archaeologists spade from a dig at the Cuckoo Stone (Stonehenge, Salisbury, England), . They are from a body or work from a recent Artist Residency at the Stonehenge Riverside Project (September 2007).
I was particularly interested in the pillars at Woodhenge as the modernist material of cement poles were used to mark the positions of a Neolithic structure. The cement pillars can now be read as the actual monument and are themselves becoming a dated entity with a form of value. The drawings map the cracked painted surface of the circular pillars and could be seen to resemble astronomical bodies, referencing Woodhenges alignment to the Summer Solstice. The spade drawing attempts to depict the traces of the repetitive act of digging on the metal surface of the implement.
-Brian Fay (May 2008)
Black Centre Pillar - Woodhenge Circle Series
Digital hand drawing, Dimensions Variable, 2007
