This was one of the first drawings I made after putting down the Wacom pen and picking up a piece of charcoal. It is based on an image from my personal archive for which I have always felt a special fascination, but that was incompatible with the photomontages I have made so far.
The printed photograph of this Hawaiian Girl (by Caroline Haskins Gurrey, dating from 1909) is quite heavily deteriorated, showing lighter patches and scratches. I chose to incorporate the partly atrophied physicality of the vintage photograph into the drawing.
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Charcoal on paper
86 x 49 cm 34"x 20" image size
95 x 75 cm 38"x 30" frame size
This original drawing comes framed in an off-white frame with white matting, and is ready to hang.
