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Lisa Jones explores the notion of drawing as an act of thinking and doing and her drawings are inhabited by place, moment and memory. Place is revealed through erasure, observation and mapping; moment bears witness to the human presence through the bodily movements that create the marks and memory is represented through the erasure of the marks reflecting the dissolving of time and place – forgotten places and times.
The drawings have a starting point in her personal collection of photographs of paving cracks, maps and anatomical illustrations and is a continuation of her research into the relationship between the body and place. The drawing series are a palimpsest of everyday of meanderings; they are cultural markers of place, time and history.

“Don’t step on the cracks”- Paris 2020,

These two works are from a series of 92 drawings produced through psychogeography - the exploration of the urban environment whilst walking - and in particular through my obsession with pavement cracks. Before Covid-19 cut short a 92 day residency in Paris, I drifted through this unknown city, without a planned route, guided only by a street level gaze upon the discarded details of a local everyday. The pavement cracks looked like re-imaged city street maps or anatomical drawings of arteries and veins; simultaneously presenting micro and macro views of the city. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the winding streets of Paris were paved with cobblestones. Haussmann’s redevelopment of the city paved over the cobbles; enabling smoother wheeled travel, but also, a defence against citizen uprisings, which previously had used the cobbles as weapons against the state. Pavement cracks are part of the geography of any city. Personally they represent a metaphorical journey of life.

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm 30x30cm

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Surface Trace Paris Walking

Surface Trace Paris Walking

2020 Pencil on Khadi paper 320gsm Produced partly whilst on the Onslow Storrier National Art School, Cité Internationale des Arts residency program which Covid 19 interrupted. When complete this collection of drawings will represent the the 82 days I should have been there.