During my Studio One residency at Plymouth Arts Centre from Friday 23 to Monday 26 October 2009 (part of the 10th anniversary of the Campaign for Drawing’s annual programme The Big Draw) I began to develop a new animation work through a series of immersive durational performances: exploring landscape as an interior construct and imaginary place, and as a temporal and spatial experience, through drawing practice and investigation of the relationship between miniature (frame) and macro (projection). I kept a Studio One blog throughout October - before, during, and after my residency - that includes video documentation of the first projection of my 16mm film-drawing ‘scrolls’ and a QuickTime movie made from hi-res digital photographs shot of each film frame in sequence and played back on a timeline at 12 frames per second.
The project became known as The Measure of It: the length (time) of each 16mm film ‘scroll’ was determined by a distance between points on my body, such as from fingertip to fingertip between my outstretched arms, and bisecting my body along a posterior/anterior axis.