Market Day/Market Drawing
My apartment looks out onto the main square in Pont-Aven. Every Tuesday from about 8:30 to 1:00 there is a big public market with an amazing assortment of produce, cheeses, meat, local honey, etc. I wanted to add a little visual offering to the mix so I made an eight panel drawing (quick low budget charcoal on cardboard) that filled my front and upper floor windows. I created an unfurling, high contrast linked graphic that abstractly references some of the narrative sequences and visual timbre of “Moby Dick” flavored with the ever present mariner culture (real and performed) here in the region.
Imagine Melville realized by Sid and Marty Kroft…..
Through the summer as the tourist crowds increase, I will continue to create new drawings and explore the theatricality, sequential, framing and transient potentials of this public format. A video projection screen will also show up in one of the windows to allow for night sequences.
Here are a few rough shots I snapped right before the clouds opened up and absolutely drenched the market.
I’ll be getting better shots without the glare when it stops raining.
Left Side
Right Side