Drawing
Since 2017 Charnjeev has in part devoted his artistic practice to the perpetual description of Written On Words, a landscape created through a confluence of drawing, film, sculpture and written text.
Written On Words is an almanac containing a series of drawings and short films by Charnjeev Kang that register a position, a line of inquiry and investigation. The work began with questions: What happens when our conscience is guided through space by myth and narrative? How are memories consciously and unconsciously bound by ritual, people, places, and registered into the human body?
The work explores our sources of embodied memory, their interlocking organs and secret passageways. The graphite and chalk bear witness to this enquiry; actively reconciling the weight of the hand, the companion of perception and the encounters within recollection to achieve its object.
The work tracks and documents the efforts of anthropologist Tintinnabuli who has dedicated his life to construct an almanac charting a voyage taken through his own mental territories, Tintinnabuli spends his days meeting the inhabitants of Written on Words who do not live in our world of categorized universal representations.
Instead, they inhabit a real but entirely individual realm, to which no one else has direct access. The almanac consists of artefacts recorded by Tintinnabuli who uses drawing, film & sculpture as a method of representing places, investigation & discovery.
Drawing and film media are used as devices to transcribe conceptions of liminal space, those environments that exist outside the realm of our known psychological geography and are formed by the artefacts of outer and inner existence. The almanac consists of artefacts in the form of drawing & film as a method of representing places, investigation & discovery. The cannon of these mediums behave as gates inviting the viewer to make their own voyage through a territory to elsewhere if they choose to.