Book 5 - Liam Yeates and Ivan Marcos

Over the past five years I have collaborated with eight writers to produce a unique volume of ten books. This collection focuses on the relationships between drawing and writing, exploring ideas of notation, observation, transcription and translation. Writing and drawing share a set of similar approaches and methodologies, the ideas of immediate encounter and experience, reduced to pen, ink and paper, where shapes and lines reconstruct experienced realities. Immediacy and mediation are significant factors in both practices where the act of collaboration consolidates a interdisciplinary approach to active response and recognition.

At his best, is in awe about how often his shoelaces need tying up. This pushes him to develop small realities that nearly always include a self-exploding device. Which is pointless since they would collapse anyway without it. www.ivanmarcos.es