BC141
Untitled
[Child’s Head]
Demonstration drawing of a child’s head. Two drawings side by side. Drawing on left enclosed in drawn frame with arrows.
Private Collection
Auckland, New Zealand
Drawn at the Rotorua Masonic Village, New Zealand, where Flora Scales was a resident from 26 October 1978 until just before her death in January 1985.
Scales drew this to demonstrate the structure underlying her painting Untitled [Jacob] [BC084] as she was talking to M. de Lange, 1983. Of Untitled [Jacob] [BC084] Scales noted, “The painting is unfinished...I moved to the Masonic in the middle of it [October 1978] and never achieved what I hoped for in it. I was trying to analyse the structure of his head – to show the unique character of this head, rather than his unique character.” While talking, Scales was drawing to demonstrate her explanations resulting in Untitled [Child’s Head] [BC141].
Photos by Sam Hartnett
