Figure 2 Draw of a Drawing, Opening Sequence, 2014
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Draw of a Drawing is a transcription of the installation Kaleidoscopic City, which has in turn been a transcription of part of the city of Edinburgh. As seen through Flusser’s analysis, an act of transcription entails the effect of a scripture as a scraping that is a material recalibration of a surface, while the prefix trans- confers upon this action the effect of movement, or more specifically of carrying across. Indeed, what has come to develop into Draw of a Drawing has been carried across a variety of localities or sites. From the city to the gallery, and finally to the interior of a wooden box, these re-sitings can be understood as a series of re- teiritorialisations, where the object of representation is not merely displaced but constantly recalibrated by the agency of new space (see image below). These transcriptions are always concluded upon surfaces: the volcanic earth carries the city, the pristine floor of the gallery is disrupted by the installation, while the box is cut, engraved and reassembled.
