Tamarin Norwood
THE MOURNING LINES, 2021
THE MOURNING LINES, 2021
Most of the time there was nothing physically obstructing the path of the line, so it should have been easy enough to slip the pencil along the seam with the efficiency of a scalpel. But something that was not physical held it back. Even if there was nothing for the pencil to collect up, still there was something left over, tugging at the drawing and slowing it down.
A pencil line scratched around the internal perimeter of an empty house, a biro line drawn across a bed sheet before sleep, a dozen recordings of a voice walking into the dark, a row of ink blots at the foot of a page. These acts and artefacts are what remain of nine years spent in the drawing studio. Together they describe drawing as something fluid, sightless and fractious, to do with loss, mourning, and trying––or refusing—to come up for air.
‘To read The Mourning Lines is to have a unique experience. It is to be inside form as it moves, is made. Here thought and duration coincide at the point as it extends, which is another way of saying, and sensing, the line. Following along with the pencil, the voice, the biro, the blot, we feel let in on a secret. Like we are there at the beginning of a world; like we are there with what remains after each world ends.’ —> Kristen Kreider
Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. She holds a doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University, visiting early career research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, and researcher at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, University of Oxford. Her scholarly publications address drawing, loss, and bereavement; her related prose fiction, poetry, and art works have been commissioned and shared widely, including with the BBC World Service, Art on the Underground, ICA Philadelphia, MOCCA Toronto, Tate, and Wellcome Collection.
Enxhi Mandija reviews The Mourning Lines in a lovelt short essay entitled ‘A Measure of Longing’ in MAP magazine. Read it here.
A pencil line scratched around the internal perimeter of an empty house, a biro line drawn across a bed sheet before sleep, a dozen recordings of a voice walking into the dark, a row of ink blots at the foot of a page. These acts and artefacts are what remain of nine years spent in the drawing studio. Together they describe drawing as something fluid, sightless and fractious, to do with loss, mourning, and trying––or refusing—to come up for air.
‘To read The Mourning Lines is to have a unique experience. It is to be inside form as it moves, is made. Here thought and duration coincide at the point as it extends, which is another way of saying, and sensing, the line. Following along with the pencil, the voice, the biro, the blot, we feel let in on a secret. Like we are there at the beginning of a world; like we are there with what remains after each world ends.’ —> Kristen Kreider
Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. She holds a doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University, visiting early career research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, and researcher at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, University of Oxford. Her scholarly publications address drawing, loss, and bereavement; her related prose fiction, poetry, and art works have been commissioned and shared widely, including with the BBC World Service, Art on the Underground, ICA Philadelphia, MOCCA Toronto, Tate, and Wellcome Collection.
Enxhi Mandija reviews The Mourning Lines in a lovelt short essay entitled ‘A Measure of Longing’ in MAP magazine. Read it here.
68 pages
105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1- 910055-83-0
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105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1- 910055-83-0
£9.00
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Next Book ->