PRIMAL BOOK

A wide arc, a standing figure drawn as fine mesh, a small round form off to one side. The same few shapes come back across every later sheet, which is what the title is pointing at. Sodium hypochlorite — household bleach — drawn onto black paper with brush, dropper and bare hand. The bleach lifts the dye out of the sheet rather than adding anything to it, so every mark arrives pale gold and none of them can be taken back. A line keeps spreading after the hand has left, which means the drawing finishes itself. Titled PRIMAL BOOK, and dated 2017 — the earliest of the run, made before the method had settled. It shares its name and its instinct with the folded books and the wider Primal family.