‘Accumulation’ focuses on the conveyor belt at Angerstein Wharf, which shuttles aggregate between ship and shore, along with the abundance of activity swirling around it: tidal waters ceaselessly ebbing and flowing, vegetation striving to reclaim living space, gulls scavenging above.

I used negative space to describe both the columns supporting the conveyor belt and the tree branches which reach into the bottom right of the drawing. As the drawing evolved, I noticed how the visual correlation between these two areas of negative space, and their consequent evocation of both absence and presence, began to articulate the precarious relationship between the enormous elemental and industrial forces at work in this area.

This drawing was featured in the Line Drawing Project.

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