Surface Disruptions and Colour Interference - Documenting Drawings

These photographs are part of a series documenting graphite drawings on newsprint. The delicate surface of the newsprint is distorted and creased by the act of repetitively drawing heavy graphite lines. Light acting on the metallic surface of the drawings when photographed reveals the extent of the disturbance to the paper, and the influence of the colour temperature of the light on the monochromatic drawing is also suggested in its documentation.

Studio Views: Work in Progress, Interrupted Vertical Lines

Charley Peters, Works in Progress (2011), Ink on Paper

Developments of a new series of drawings incorporating interrupted vertical lines, drawn sytematically parallel to each other. The ink lines are layered in an unpremeditated manner, causing colours to mix on the paper.

Studio Views: Work in Progress, Covariance Series

Charley Peters Covariance (2011), Electrical Tape, Canvas, Wall.

Covariance (2011) (Detail)

These photographs document the beginning of a new series of work, provisionally called Covariance. The work is concerned with the interruption of a series of lines as they encounter a raised surface, in this case a canvas on the studio wall. The lines are made from electrical tape, stretched across the wall and over the canvas, which interferes with the lines' passage across the flat surface.

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covariance  (kəʊˈvɛərɪəns)  — noun
statistics  a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as: Cov ( X, Y )

Covariance (2011) Digital Preparatory Drawings

Studio Views: Developing the Praxis Series

Charley Peters (2011) Sketches for Praxis, Ink on Paper

Above: Recent experiments with interrupting the repetitive lines in the Praxis drawings by masking off areas of the paper surface.

Studio Views: Work in Progress, Praxis Series

Charley Peters (2011), Sketches for Praxis Series, Ink on Paper

Studio Views: White Noise

Completed work in the studio

Today work was completed on a new drawing in the series Signal to White Noise Ratio. The piece is a intricate rendering of the visual interference generated by repeatedly photocopying the same image, in this case a small, hand-drawn graphite square. The work is executed in graphite on paper and measures 120 x 120 cm.

Top: Signal to White Noise Ratio (2011)  / Below: Signal to White Noise Ratio (Detail)

Project News: Hybrid on TBC Online Project Space

Charley Peters Ghosts (2011)

The latest issue of TBC's 12-Pages publication is now available at www.12-pages.com. Featuring work from TBC Artists' Collective, associates and from open submission, participants were asked to respond to the theme of 'Hybrid'.

Concerned with issues of hybridity between analogue and digital methods of producing artworks, and hybrid words, which combine etymologically Latin and Greek parts, my work Ghosts (2011), is a series of three digital halftone drawings of analogue television static. The word 'television' is derived from a hybrid Latin and Greek origin meaning 'far sight': Greek 'tele', far, and Latin 'visio', sight.

Hybrid is online now.

Sketches: Xerox Drawings

'Drawings' generated on a photocopier. Sketches for future works exploring visual interference and drawing processes.

Research: Visual Interference

Found images of TV static, research for new work concerning examples of 'visual interference'.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him -- Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of the modern television.

Noise in analogue video and television is perceived as a random dot pattern which is superimposed on the picture as a result of electronic noise and radiated electromagnetic noise picked up by the receiver's antenna. Due to the algorithmic functioning of a digital television set's electronic circuitry and the inherent quantization of its screen, the 'snow' seen on digital TV is less random.

Anatomy of a Projection.

Left: Viral I (detail), graphite on paper
Right: Viral II (detail), graphite on paper

The Viral series of drawings, which will be previewed at the Delineation: Contemporary Dialogues with Drawing exhibition in October, explores the relationship between mechanically produced and hand rendered marks. The works reproduce the toner traces left on distorted photocopies of found images, projected and traced to generate a large-scale exact copy of the disrupted images. Viral I presents the pixellated visual interferences retained when images are processed through a digital projector attached to a laptop, Viral II the comparatively smooth contours of lines presented by projecting image data through an OHP - digital vs analogue information.