Thorsten Knaub

Draw (London A-Z) installation view
Drawing Show, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art

Draw (London A-Z) Final drawing
Drawing Show, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art

Draw (London A-Z) Detail
Drawing Show, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art

Draw (London A-Z) Detail
Drawing Show, Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art

Draw (London A-Z) (1997)
London map, London A - Z index
Glass box 40 x40cm, marker pens

The drawing installation Draw consists of a map of London pinned to the wall with a sheet of tracing paper placed on top. Next to the map is a glass box with the A-Z street index of London cut into small strips of paper as well as a sheet with following instructions:

Please take a ticket out of the glass container to your left.

Look up the street on the map on the wall with the help of the letter/number code shown on the ticket.

Take one of the markers provided and trace the street indicated.

After you have done so, please drop the ticket on the floor.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Thorsten Knaub 1997