8”x8” ink on paper
Launch Pad Cooperative in Toledo
Some of these drawings were originally done for a group show, 8×8, in Toledo, Ohio at the Launch Pad Cooperative. The ratio/format was an opportunity for Patrick Dew to deviate from the wide landscape format.
Ink drawing & passive direction
These drawings by Patrick Dew are an exercise in, and an attempt at, passive directing. Films used to be commonly ‘ruined’ for television with a method called pan and scan. Each shot within the film is cropped and the ‘camera’ moved throughout the frame in order to place the film within the TV-friendly ratio. The result is “passive directing,” as framing is not done by the director.
Meta-noir art and the art of appropriation
Passive direction is a conversation in parallel to the déjà vu appropriation methodology used in Patrick Dew’s other series.
