Retranscription of L’Odyssée (detail)

2008-2010

6H pencil on canvas and L’Odyssée by Homer (French) (92cm x 122cm)

My hand passed over the canvas, an expanse that resembles the ocean on which the hero sailed. Would there be a parallel between Odysseus’s voyage and the task of transcribing a book? Would the concept of the ordeal form at the heart of the act of rewriting this particular story by hand? Furthermore, the words thus aligned create a texture that is reminiscent of Penelope’s labour of weaving.