Sing the Song of the Trepizate       (2020)

Sing the Song of the Trepizate       (2020)

Ink and crayon on paper
387mm x 564mm

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As with many of Adam Chodzko’s drawings ‘Sing the Song of the Trepizate’ uses the act of drawing, making a body – an arm and hand holding pigments – act out a performance, indelibly embedding the passage of this performance onto a two dimensional surface, of paper.  The body is attempting to inhabit an atmosphere or a mood, generated from something glimpsed in a hypnagogic state while that body rested, and marking this feeling before it slips away. But in return the drawing ‘speaks’, telling us its name and proclaiming what we might do together!
‘Sing the Song of the Trepizate’  depicts something like…a marker in a landscape – a scarecrow, organs, a weaving spool, a filter or snare.
See also: Meetings of people with stammers to describe a fire  (1999 – ongoing), the weaving forms in jengkuan (2023) and the structures of Mask Filters; (eg: Mask Filter  (2013).  For another work which uses a form to channel perception, see;  Thru hole I blind/O/Thru hole oui see  (2020).
‘Sing the Song of the Trepizate’  is a form of image moderator.