This work is comprised of two images one derived from the other.
One refers to the overall subject Bloody Sunday, and utilises the naming of that day. I took the names of the days of the week and repeated them on the grounds that the aftermath of Bloody Sunday resonates from day to day. By turning the letters and words upside down , inside out and back to front I tried to express how rationality in crisis can be turned on its head.
The drawing repeats the words of the week in different ways until the space is filled. It could be repeated ad infinitum.
Bloody Sunday as a drawing is minimal. It does not draw attention to itself.
It does not attempt any form of reasoning other than to show the presence of unreason.
Unreason comes in the form of a deliberate rationale which inhabits the other work. It takes measurements from Bloody Sunday and uses them to build up an image which I saw as being analogous to the trajectory of bullets . All the positions of the letters were measured then drawn with the aid of a ruler.
The emergent structure harbours an abstract reality intended to contain a general formalisation, a similitude of the expenditure of bullets.
Again it is quite specific but dependent on the positions of the letters and words of the first work. Everything about this work is rational. It follows procedures to the letter.
I did not intend to make any kind of overview , but rather to allow these two colliding yet entirely alien interfaces suggest the awful connections between protest and the British colonial presence of armed force with lethal outcomes.
Stuart Brisley