Ross Taylor
High Road script, 2024
Graphite and charcoal on paper
55 x 45 cm
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in.
21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in.
Unique
Photo: Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington
This charcoal and graphite drawing, titled High Road Script, depicts an enigmatic array of symbols or characters, evoking an ancient language inscribed on a stone or an alien alphabet. The...
This charcoal and graphite drawing, titled High Road Script, depicts an enigmatic array of symbols or characters, evoking an ancient language inscribed on a stone or an alien alphabet. The title suggests a link to the counterculture of wall tags and graffiti on a city street and a connection with the characters depicted in the other drawings. The symbols are both familiar and unknown, like the crowd of associates wandering in the High Street.
Suspended between an ancient past that never happened and a possible future, the script becomes a visual metaphor for the feeling of radical ambiguity of time and identity that runs through the exhibition, an undecrypted message left behind by those who move outside the lines of institutional visibility.
Suspended between an ancient past that never happened and a possible future, the script becomes a visual metaphor for the feeling of radical ambiguity of time and identity that runs through the exhibition, an undecrypted message left behind by those who move outside the lines of institutional visibility.