Ash Ground (in progress)

Everyone who held a leading bid while the work was unfinished is entered on the record as a co-owner of the process, permanently, and the record travels with the work.

A name appears here only while that collector keeps it published; everyone else is on the record as “A collector”. Bid amounts are part of the record either way, and no email address is ever published. You choose which you are under what is published about you.

BID HISTORY

Holds are placed by Stripe and handed back when you are outbid. This table publishes where each bid stands; what your own card is doing is on your dashboard.

FIG. 04 — THE RECORD

13 SEP

Day 41 — I scraped the whole left side back to the ground

Three weeks of work, gone in an afternoon with a palette knife and a wet rag. The left side had become an argument with the right side and only one of them was telling the truth. The ground underneath took the new ink better than the first ground ever did.

04 SEP

Day 33 — What the collectors asked, and what I said back

Someone asked whether I would sign it if I destroyed the left side. I said the journal is the signature and the painting is just where the ink landed. They bid again an hour later.

19 AUG

Day 17 — The under-drawing nobody will ever see

Charcoal, then a wash of ash over it, then sumi. By the time this closes the drawing will be four layers down and only the photographs will know it was there.