| Description | Works on paper originally held together in one portfolio. The majority of works have been executed in white paint and/or wax crayon on large sheets of black paper, though some feature a limited application of yellow, blue and red [paint?]. The material does not seem to relate to exhibited works, but appears to be a file of traced drawings made by Dye during his period of experimentation using projection and/or anamorphosis. His experimentation involved projecting photographic negatives onto black backgrounds - including, walls, objects and paper - and then tracing the resulting image with white paint. Some of the experimentation involved the creation of anamorphic images which could only be viewed at a certain angle. The subject matter for these works varied and included, staged dolls' house furniture; a face in profile; outline drawings of male bodies; images from an instructional weight-training poster; [ancient Greek?] wrestlers; and a male torso. None of the drawings are titled, but a large volume of labelled negatives found elsewhere in the collection have rudimentary titles enabling identification of the material. According to Dye's labelling, the drawings represent the following experimental works: 'Painted room' [/1-2]; 'Profiles on palette table' [/3-4; 7]; 'Weight training diagrams in corner' [/5-6]; and 'Séance II' [/8-13}. Additional images of wrestlers [/14-16], a naked torso [/17] and unidentifiable markings [/18-20] are also included in the bundle, though corresponding titles could not be identified from the negatives. |