Wanted to work out a way to make my sketchbook work accessible as research and as a resolved work. The lack of physical exhibition made digital accessibility a requirement, so I scanned the pages, made a pdf and uploaded to an online flip page booklet converter.

I wanted to document and present the sketchbook process I developed, by covering alternate pages with graphite. This was to invert the drawing process (removing graphite from the page) and ended up allowing carbon copies of ideas and sketches to repeat throughout.

Click link to see digital sketchbook

https://online.fliphtml5.com/xcxgx/zrni/#p=1

For the duration of this project, titled Negative, I have explored the formal and conceptual possibilities of negative space with regards to denial, absence, erasure and the spaces that exists in, around and in place of objects, words and ideas.

Taking a wide research approach, I initiated with the key aim to learn and uncover connections between strands of visual and contextual research into the historically and politically significant site of Holyrood, Edinburgh.  The result is a diverse body of multimedia works, driven by observational drawing, writing and digital recordings.    

Instagram:       calum_artin

Research:       https://www.are.na/calum-martin/negative-d-8irte42bw