In a review of the exhibition: " Notation: Calculus and Form in the Arts" by Marc Gloede from Art in America Dec. '08 I read a reference to Gilles Deleuze regarding modernism's shift away from finished masterpeices with a new focus on process called 'the mode of becoming'.  The article explains that, "by trying to capture an element of time, rhythm or movement, ......... notation necessarily gets involved ...."

 This past weekend in Pukekohe New Zealand I saw people attempting to "read" the text of my recent installation; the text which was made up of simple 1 cm graphite marks filling each of 90 pages (see "From the Edge" exhibition images).  I do these drawings continually and in this particular installation they were to act as a backdrop or rather a constant static to the text drawings hanging from the ceiling.  The hangings operated clearly as written text, though the dialogue between them varies depending on how they are associated by the viewer.  Interestingly, it has been the alphabet-less text that has been the most provocative.  This was an unexpected response to the drawings and reminded me of the article mentioned above.

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