Dave Beech
Grammar
A resemblance of a stick and a drawn line emphasised by cutting them together as a single continuous line. Is this metaphorical? The stick is a painted line…
A triangle is constructed between three heads. This is also a repetition of heads. (Repetition is used in writing to put emphasis on things and to create rhythm.)
The out of focus image is cut to create a sharp line that intersects with an architectural feature, creating a geometric shape. The combination of lexical elements (isolated image fragments) are combined to produce a syntactical whole (shape) that does not exist in either but exists in a third “world” where the two meet. The cut line follows a row of holes in the wall and touches an internal edge of the building, creating the new shape out of a combination of features internal to one picture and introduced to the other externally by a knife. This flattens the image of the building, accentuating its patterns, and also gives the blurred image the look of concrete where it meets the surface. By continuing above the building and cutting across the sky to the edge of the image, another geometric shape is produced beside it.
The diagonal line that splits the bottom left square follows the same path as the horse’s neck.
An interior space inserted into exterior spaces. The line demarcating the wall and ceiling is placed to correspond with the line that connects the flat ground with the foot of the mountain. An artificial line created by a cut resembles a natural division between grass and a lake, which also corresponds to the edge of the table in the auction room
The top edge of the photo of the dancer lines up with the line reflected in the vase. The horizontal lines of the patterned shirt is similar to the pattern of windows on the building. Do these relations connect the lexical meaning (individual words or images) into a syntactic (structural, sentential) whole? Affinity? External appearance reflects internal character?