ABSTRACT

The sketchbook is a written artefact that performs unvaryingly with a site, more precisely two sites, two lines, two traces and two threads. As a means of exploring textual and material possibilities, the sketchbook becomes the place for destabilizing an innate signified and signifier, that of a wound and pain. One Wound, Two Wounds is synonymous with a red sketchbook that lives inside a transparent case, and probably in the mind of some that have seen it and heard its story. As a site-writing project it proposes to look at the question of the body and the building as sites for writing. It is an exploration of the body, in relation to building and to a sculptorical trace whose place of encounter is a red sketchbook. Acting as a third site, the sketchbook acts as the space where possible new meanings are built from deconstructive processes of drawing, writing, cutting and pasting.