Bynne Woo
Under Erasure
Summary
Under Erasure is an ongoing research project which explores erasure as a mode of practice to navigate materialising traces and abstract figures within contemporary painting practice. Erasure is often thought of as deletion or destruction. Erasure within drawing and painting — adjusting, masking, doing undoing — overlays additive behaviours onto previous marks which combine with arbitrary emerging abstract figures, building a new pictorial value. In this research, erasure as an additive methodology seeks to challenge the boundary lines of knowledge and rationale that we encounter, and to propose a soft space within the formal structures for imaginary thoughts to be engaged with. It poses the question as to how the concept of erasure may be used to bring awareness to the multi-layered structure of the unconscious mind.
Additional info
My process-driven practice engages with layering activities of painting and erasing: a series of actions involving doing and undoing, where erasure forms a significant part of the process. It creates unforeseeable events and chance happenings in abstract painting which are unimaginable at the outset. The practice of erasure suggests happenchance renderings and throws up assemblages of unexpected forms and ideas, giving recognition to a new type of meaning.
2020, Oil on canvas diptych, 100x100cm each
2021, Oil on linen, 40x50cm
