MATT HALL
PAST THE CURVE OF RECALL
A READING OF J.H. PRYNNE’S WOUND RESPONSE 1. Summa: Tacit knowledge and Residual Reading Standing before one of the gouache and indian ink works of Ian Friend, one notices the contrastive augmentation and overlaying of minute images that distend the object depicted in the image-complex beyond any singular definition. The works in The snowdrift line series could easily represent a bodily structure reproduced by magnetic resonance
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Ian Friend, “The White Stones 2007-8,” Indian ink, gouache and crayon on Khadi paper. 23 x 30 cm. Private collection, New York The position expressed in this introductory note have been excised from the chapter ‘Tacit Knowledge and the Established Need for a Residual Reading’ as was published in The Poetic Front from Simon Fraser University, Vol.3 (2010). http://journals.sfu.ca/poeticfront/index.php/pf/article/view/40. Another significant portion of the original argument from the introduction and the chapter ‘Prynne’s Early Influences and the Development of Late-Modernism’ is contained in the article ‘J.H. Prynne and the Late-Modern Epic’ published by Cordite Poetry Review in 2009: http://www.cordite.org.au/?p=7150