William Kentridge Drawing for Soft Dictionary ('Earning Its Keep'), 2018 Charcoal on found pages Frame: 126.5 x 219.5 x 6.8 cm
Drawing for Soft Dictionary (Earning Its Keep) is a composite drawing made in conjunction with William Kentridge’s single-channel flip book film, Soft Dictionary. Soft Dictionary is a visual record of a series of thoughts emerging and disappearing – lists of drawings made and never made, historical figures, personal references. The single channel film, and drawings try to document fragments of the non-sequiturs lodged in our heads, all of which are props in our efforts to understand the world: the very randomness of thoughts providing some of the richness of understanding. In its attempt to follow multiple streams of consciousness, it travels the boundary between incoherence, in the arbitrariness of images and references; and our constant need to make connections between images and references.
