'Kit-World: Hookys' Andrew Stones 2025. Drawing, square format. Minimal white marks (with sepia-tone 'bloom') on a black ground. One of a series of scratchy line drawings imagining a rickety, impermanent world assembled from small, fragile sub-units, each made in the manner of a kit. Taken as a whole, 'Hookys' has the character of a photographic plate negative, microscope or x-ray image, its upper fifth and lower two-fifths solid black. Running across the entire width of the frame, slightly above the median line and angled a few degrees down to the right, is a broad, textured band somewhat like the edge-on view of a slab of stone or ice, marked by pits and scratches, giving it a time-worn or weathered appearance. Three smaller, white entities, rendered in scraped white lines, seem to be partially embedded, like parasites, in the upper and lower edges of the large object positioned across the frame. Each is unique, but all have fine appendages ending in finely-etched white hooks. Two extend their hooks into the blackness below the slab, one reaches into the blackness above, with two, tiny, wavering limbs. There is a title at bottom centre, and an artist's signature written vertically at bottom right, both in white. The 'Kit-World' series employs a method digitally equivalent to drawing on a 'scraper board', where a dark surface is scratched through to reveal a white layer underneath. Inspired by one particular limitation of the scraper board, the artist adopted a 'no erasing' a rule, placing a premium on every mark made, and promoting a minimalist approach.
βKit-World: Hookysβ
Drawing 2026.
w/Alt text.
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