Producing a drawing of a watercolour and ink image, scaled up x4
Working with water soluble graphite. It has a delicious density, so intense and grey. Shimmering in the light. Silky to apply with brush.
Process writing:
Stop resisting
I stroke you
Lightly,
You leave no trace
Pressure exerted,
I layer
Still, you don't succumb
Putty in my fingers
I work you.
Fragments breakaway
Eventually a little grace,
You smudge
And misbehave
But I know how to work you,
Wet
You surrender
And do as you are told.
*graphite putty*
Your filth calls me
I want to get messy
Cover me
Under my fingernails
Into the cracks of my skin
Blemish my cheeks
Soil my clothes.
*charcoal dust*