Visualizing the verbal
“My drawings are made through a process of mark making, using mostly dots, dashes and lines, and running through horizontals and vertical directions, as in the warp and weft in weaving. Each layer of marks built up over the previous layer partly obscuring but also revealing and repeating.
The resulting image is a mêlée or a wall of drawn marks that appear as a field of repeated actions.
The size of the drawings is often large or human in scale, with the viewer encountering the space of the drawing.
The marks are made in a certain order or pattern, and give the impression of completeness, yet also an appearance of in-between-ness or of a state of emerging.”
Anthony Lyttle.
When I reflect on the image two things from which it cannot be separated come: the rhythm and the vision. The vision, that still and private world which each of us possesses and which others cannot see, is brought to life in rhythm – rhythm being little more than the instinctive movements of the vision as it comes to life and begins its search for the image in a kind of grave, grave of the images of dead passions and their days[1].
When writing about drawing his father`s corpse as it lay in the coffin the late John Berger reminds us that “one tends to forget that the visual is always a result of an unrepeatable, momentary encounter”, [2] its fragility resulting from the debris of what had been only now to find its way into a new constellation; a constellation made up of not least memory and forgetfulness; those two ever present but easily overlooked operative drives.
![Accumulation [Installation image, VISUAL Carlow] marker, acrylic, tape on layout paper 293 x 360cm © Anthony Lyttle 2012 Photograph by Ros Kavanagh](https://www.interaliamag.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1.Accumulationmarker-and-acrylic-paint-on-layout-paper293x360-cm2012-624x468.jpg)
‘Accumulation’ [Installation image, VISUAL Carlow], marker, acrylic, tape on layout paper, 293 x 360cm
© Anthony Lyttle 2012 Photograph by Ros Kavanagh
![Fall [installation image] 414 x 376cms VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow © Anthony Lyttle 2012Photograph by Ros Kavanagh](https://www.interaliamag.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3.Fallmarker-and-acrylic-paint-on-layout-paper414-x-376-cm-2012--624x624.jpg)
‘Fall’ [installation image] 414 x 376cms, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
© Anthony Lyttle 2012 Photograph by Ros Kavanagh
![Fall [installation image] 414 x 376cms VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow © Anthony Lyttle 2012Photograph by Ros Kavanagh](https://www.interaliamag.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2.Installation-viewFall-2012-624x468.jpg)
‘Fall’ [installation image], 414 x 376cms, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
© Anthony Lyttle 2012 Photograph by Ros Kavanagh

‘Interlock’ installation image, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
© Anthony Lyttle 2012 Photograph by Ros Kavanagh

‘Transition’ (detail), marker and acrylic paint on layout paper, 119 x 147 cm
© Anthony Lyttle 2013
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