I wrote these words ‘Picture of SPRING’ in a PowerPoint presentation I’m working on as part of my PhD. I wrote it as a place holder for one of my slides, the intention being to drop an image or two of the bookwork I’ve just completed called SPRING: You walked the line didn’t you. Its a work based on the walk I did recently from The Coldstones Cut to Pelstone Cross, 22 miles through Washburndale and Wharfedale.

But Is the text above enough? I found it quite contemplative. With no image, only words, I’m left to my own devices to conjure up a ‘Picture of SPIRNG’. After all, Roland Barthes claims that once you put your artwork in front of an audience it is no longer yours, it belongs to the viewer. So why not simply ‘instruct’ the viewer to create their own visual image?

I’ve been playing with the idea of writing ‘scores’ as part of my art practice, maybe those score only need to consist of a few words.