Storm Gallery : METIS : Mark Dorrian + Adrian Hawker: Contribution to 'The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting' Exhibition

This project explores the internal topographies of a sedimented and compacted pile of water-damaged drawings – silk screen transparencies produced for the printing of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown’s plans for the National Gallery extension in London. These were stained during the passage of Hurricane Irene across the eastern seaboard of the US. Ferrous water from drainage pipes spilled over the drawings and mould developed in the intervening years. The drawings adhered and began to print onto one another. The new silkscreen develops from a process of unpeeling and folding the sheets to put into play the complex set of marks that their surfaces have come to support. Delaminated in four parts, these become four new separations that are directly exposed from the original sheets.