COFVI
Drawings | Alessandro Carboni
Production | 2001
Format | 21cmx29cm
Materials | Graphite, oil pastel, marker, and eraser on paper. Printed on photography paper
This series of drawings is inspired by Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux, where the author explores altered states of perception and writing. In a similar way, the drawings unfold as abstract visions of distant, blurred landscapes, as if belonging to a fading memory or a dream just vanished.
Made with charcoal and graphite, the marks are then partially erased, shifted, and reactivated through the use of an eraser, generating unstable, nebulous surfaces. Forms seem to move, drawn by an invisible force—like wind or thought. The landscape is never fixed, but crossed by vibrations, displacements, erasures. Among the marks emerge letters, numbers, fragments of a coded language. They seem to belong to an interrupted discourse, an inner writing left unresolved. More than communicating, they evoke: graphic remains of a thought not yet formed or already forgotten.
COFVI is an inquiry into the threshold between vision and disappearance, between presence and erasure. An exercise in attention to the unstable, the imperceptible, to what shifts beneath the surface of the visible. A tentative translation of the elusive matter of inner experience into sign.