Destruction/modification of the past.

As a kind of sybmolic self-referential iconoclasm, I decided to try to overtly liberate myself from the preciousness I felt towards my previous practice. This event has had a fascinating effect on my feelings to my practice. I think that to really push ourselves to develop our practice during this MA we have to have a sense of courage to let go of the past and in the experience I really had a feeling of release. its interesting how this vandalism or graffiti shifts the stasis of the old works, I see the position of these older works as isolated and complete, disconnected from outside influence, which is something that I find difficult to align myself to now, and is one of the main reasons for doing this project. I want the work to shift from a state of being where the determenistic outcome of the drawing is clearly finished to a state of becoming, where there is a constant tension in the works where we are unsure whether the making is over, I want the viewer to feel as though when looking at the work at one point in time that if they return at a later date the image may of changed.

Milsom, P,. 

2015. 

 Destructive Modification (Detail 1). 

[Charcoal, Coloured Pencil, Graphite Stick, Ink, Pencil and  Eraser.] 

Provided by Artist.

Milsom, P,.

 2015.

 Destructive Modification (Detail 2). 

[Charcoal, Coloured Pencil, Graphite Stick, Ink, Pencil and  Eraser.] 

Provided by Artist.

Milsom, P,. 

2015.  

Destructive Modification (Detail 3). 

[Charcoal, Coloured Pencil, Graphite Stick, Ink, Pencil and  Eraser.] 

Provided by Artist.

I find it so exciting how there feels like there is a new energy to the works, they feel much more alive and active, though what has happened to them is destructive there is a suggestion that these works are transitioning into something new.

Milsom, P,. 

2015. 

Destructive Modification.

[Charcoal, Coloured Pencil, Graphite Stick, Ink, Pencil and  Eraser.]

Provided by Artist.