The Instruction Manual
Acrylic paint, pen, pencil, and chalk on board
37 x 30 x 2 cm
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About the Artwork
'The Instruction Manual' (2024) stages a tension between instruction and lived experience. A figure reads from a physical book, an object that promises clarity and procedure, yet the image refuses certainty. Acrylic, pencil, pen and chalk are layered on board so the surface becomes a site of revision: rubbed back, overwritten, and re-asserted.
The manual becomes less a set of steps than a rehearsal, where meaning arrives through approximation and attention rather than fixed output. The scene suggests the limits of systems that claim total legibility. Even when instructions exist, interpretation remains bodily and fallible, shaped by fatigue, desire, and misreading. The work uses analogue mark-making to keep that gap open, between what can be specified and what can only be sensed or inferred.
Details
Medium: Acrylic paint, pen, pencil, and chalk on board
Year: 2024
Size: 37 x 30 x 2 cm
Ready to Hang:
William Lowry
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