i n d e x                  d r a w i n g                       s c u l p t u r e                      i n s t a l l a t i o n                      c v                      c o n t a c t                     l i n k s


 e l i z a b e t h  p o r t e r

d r a w i n g s  2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0


b e i j i n g

work made for an exhibition a for the Red Mansion Foundation
during and after a resedency in Beijing







d u s k
(detail) silver leaf,& dust on tissue paper
10' x 2'






Through Beijings’s pewter smog and the haze of past and memory
Tracing a path amongst tangled grey hutong alleys;
Temples and markets flecked with colour,
The cuts and the crossings of wide silver avenues and shinning new towers.
Lulled by the familiar, jolted by difference; crowded places, unfathomly empty spaces.
At the margins, pared down, remote, detached, gazed at.
 Become other.
Gathering uncertain fragments; gray splinters, sudden glimpses, gleaming dust.

s p e a k i n g  s t o n e.  l i k e  s i l e n c e scroll detail; carbon on tissue paper with plastic seperaters 2' x 10'	s p e a k i n g  s t o n e.  l i k e  s i l e n c e 2 scroll detail;  carbon on tissue paper with plastic seperaters 2' x 10'	s p e a k i n g  s t o n e,  l i k e  s i l e n c e 1 scroll detail; carbon on tissue paper with plastic seperaters 2' x 10'

m a s s   (d e t a i l )  scroll; carbon & umber on tissue papar with muslim scoll seperaters 2' x 10' installation of m a s s on a perspex table in the Red Mansion Foundation Exhibition at the A Foundtion, London May 2010

	i d l e b r e a k f a s t  m a n d a r i n  p e e l   2, 6 & 10 (of 22) carbon and umber on paper 9" x 14"