The Lost Language of Cranes
Digital photography allows me to work on a very large format. I can check the composition and work on the details at the same time by zooming in on the computer screen. On paper, however, my maximum range is only one or two decimetres. Beyond that, everything falls off the paper.
I made this pointillist nocturne (67 x 65 mm) for curator Pim Hoff. He had found a 19th-century frame in Paris and asked me to make a drawing for it. I took a photo of the construction site across the street from his attic window. With old Rotring Isograph drawing pens (a legacy from my architectural days) I applied the acrylic paint to the paper like a kind of human inkjet printer.
